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By 



EVERETT S. STACKPOLE 



, Author of History of Durham, Me., History 
and Genealogy of Stackpole Family, 
Old Kittery and Her Families, Etc. 



Press of the Journal Company 
L E W ISTO N MAINE 






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MACOMBER 



The tradition is current in almost all the branches of the 
Macomber family that their first American ancestors were of 
Scotch origin. Hence some, after the family had been a century 
and a half or more in America, changed the spelling of the name 
to McComber, McCumber, McOmber and McUmber. There is 
evidence, however, that the ancestors knew how to spell their 
name when they came to this country, and they spelled it Macom- 
ber, as many signatures witness. 

How was the name pronounced? The records of Plymouth 
Colony for fifty years have the name "Maycumber," and so it has 
been pronounced to this day by the descendants of John Macom- 

t\°/ I > Upt ° n - Man y of the descendants of William Macomber 
of Marshfield, pronounce the name Mac'-om-ber. This may have 
been suggested by the supposed Scotch origin, Mac, son of Com- 
ber, Kumber, or Umber. 

Some have wanted a coat-of-arms and have been easily satis- 
fied with one supplied by the artists. An artist in Troy N Y 
some years ago got up a coat-of-arms to order, a blue shield with 
a yellow cross of St. George. The crest was a cat sejant, with 
the motto, "Touch not the cat bot a glove." The shield had as 
supporters the flags of Scotland and of the United States, and 
the astonishing statement was made by the artist, that the coat- 
of-arms was granted in the year 1004 for distinguished services 
to the King of Scotland and that the first of the Macomber name 
was a crusader. This clumsy forgery needs no refutation. The 
crest is that of the family McCombie. It is not worth while to 
determine where the "artist" stole the rest of it. 

Under date of 3 Apr., 1882, Charles A. Macomber of Cochesett 
Mass., wrote to Chandler F. Macomber of West Chesterfield' 
Mass., as follows: ' 

It is now thirty-five or more years, since I became acquainted 
with a gentleman from England, an artist, who for a favor 
bestowed copied from one of the many books he owned on Her- 



5 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

aldry the Macomber coat-of-arms, which he presented to me. As 
an explanation for the drawing the following words were printed, 
—'The family of Macomber is stated by McPherson, in his his- 
tory of the Clans, to be of the McKonnochie branch of the clan of 
Campbells. Archibald Campbell McKonnochie of Komber saved 
the life of King Robert the Second of Scotland by shooting an 
arrow through the head of a wild boar, then attacking him, when 
the king gave him the Crest the family bear in memory of the 
act, and the family changed the name to Macomber." 

The arms were described as follows: "Arms, Argent, three 
dexter hands couped at the wrist, holding bunches of arrows, all 
proper, in chief, and in base the Imperial Crown of Scotland. 
Crest, a boar's head erased, having an arrow through it, of the 
proper colors. The arms are surrounded by a bordure of those 
of Campbell, viz.— gyrony of eight, Or and Sable. Motto, He 
hath sent and he hath rewarded." 

This coat-of-arms has been widely copied, the only change 
being the substitution of a Latin motto. His nitimur et munitur, 
perhaps the original of the attempted translation above. If any- 
one will take the trouble to look in "An Ordinary of Arms Con- 
tained in the Public Register of All Arms and. Bearings in Scot- 
land," by James Balfour Paul, Edinburgh, 1893, it will there be 
seen' that the above coat-of-arms belongs to the Maconochie fam- 
ily of Meadowbank and that it dates from 18 19. A score of fam- 
ilies have a boar's head for a crest. This "artist," too, has stolen 
a coat-of-arms' from one family and a crest with slight modifi- 
cation from another. The combination he has sent to the Macom- 
bers of the United States as the arms of their ancestor, with a 
fanciful story about Robert the Second, who died in the year 

1390. 

As for McPherson's History of the Clans, I can find no evi- 
dence that any such book ever existed. There is a McPherson's 
"Sketches of the Clans," published some years after the artist 
wrote the above. It says nothing whatever about the Macomber 
family, neither can I find the name in any book of heraldry found 
in the libraries of Boston, or in the British Museum, London. It 
is reasonable to conclude that the Macomber family never had a 
coat-of-arms. It has gotten along in America very well without 
such an emblem of aristocratic rank. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 7 

The evidence is convincing that William and John Macomber 
came from Devonshire, England, or vicinity, along with the other 
settlers of Plymouth and Bristol Counties, Mass. The emigrants 
brought with them the very names of the towns from which 
they came, Plymouth, Taunton, Tiverton, Dartmouth, Falmouth, 
Barnstable, Truro, Weymouth, Plympton, Bridgewater, Dorches- 
ter, all found in the southwestern part of England. Historians 
tell us that there were no Scotch nor Irish among those first set- 
tlers. The parish registers of Devonshire would probably tell 
much about the Macomber family. From the few books accessi- 
ble I have gleaned the following interesting items. 

Sept. 14, 161 1, Thomas Macumber of St. Martin, Exeter, and 
Thomasine Staplehill of St. Stephen in the said city. See Mar- 
riage Licenses of the Diocese of Exeter, p. 24. 

John Force of the city of Exeter, gent, bachelor, about 24, and 
Anne Macomber, of same, spinster, about 22, her parents dead — 
at Harpford or Ailesboro, said County Devon, 24 Dec. 1667. — 
See London Marriage Licenses. 

Harpford and Aylesboro are small villages, near the fine 
church of Ottery St. Mary, about eight or nine miles easterly 
from Exeter. 

John Adams of Staverton licensed, Nov. 27, 1615, to marry 
Thomasine Macombe. — Marriage licenses of Exeter, Eng. p. 47. 

Nov. 6, 1676, George Stoning of the city of Exeter, grocer, 
bachr, about 28, and Elizabeth Macumber of the same, spr, about 
25, at own disp. alleged by Edward Willoughly of St. Sepulchre's, 
Cornhill, London, Druggist, at St. Peter's, St. Davis, or St. Paul, 
in the city of Exeter. — See Allegations for Marriage Licenses 
issued by the Vicar General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, 
published by the Harleian Society, p. 101. 

The Calendar of Devonshire Wills shows that Thomas Macom- 
ber of Exeter made his will in 1697. 

It has been learned through a genealogist in Devonshire that 
the inventory of Thomas Macomber of Exeter was recorded in 
1621. He left a widow Jane. "He was a grocer in a large way 
of business, leaving property in Ireland." — "I found a family of 
Meacomb and Macomber in the vicinity of Ashburton and Totnes. 
The dates range from 1590 to 1630 and the names are Walter, 
Christopher, Gregory, Margaret and Edmund." 



8 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

These items point to Devonshire, England, as the home of the 
ancestors of the Macomber family in America. The spelling of 
the name was there as well as here, Macomber and Macumber. 

It is noticeable that Thomasine Macombe, widow probably of 
Thomas Macumber, married John Adams. Combe in old English 
means a valley and is a very frequent termination of surnames 
and names of places in Devonshire. There may have been a 
Maycombe, just as there was a May Hill and a Mayfield. Indeed 
a place called Maycomb is found in Wexford, Ireland. A place 
called Maycombe, Macombe, may have given origin to the sur- 
name Maycombe, Macombe, Maycomber, Macomber, Macumber. 
The Macombers may have originated in some place called May 
Valley. 

Others insist that the name is of Scotch origin and that some 
migration carried the name into Devonshire. I am informed that 
Harry Alfred Long's Personal and Family Names, published by 
John Menzie & Co., Edinburgh, 1883, derives the names McComb, 
McCombe, McCoombe, McComber, and McCumber from the 
Gaelic ''Ornish" (Thomas) and that other forms of the same name 
are McOmish, McTavish and McTanse. A Memoir of the 
Families of McCombie and Thorns, originally Mcintosh and 
McThomas, by William McCombie Smith, Edinburgh, 1890, 
says that McThomie, McHomie, McOmie, McOmish, McOmy, 
McComie, McCombie and Thorns, McThomas and Mcintosh, all 
are names used to designate members of the same clan. Anti- 
quarians seem to agree that the Mcintosh clan are a branch of the 
clan Chattan and that the McCombie family are a branch of the 
clan Mcintosh, taking its rise in the latter half of the fourteenth 
century. It is claimed that the founder of the clan Mcintosh was 
Shaw McDuff, second son of the fifth Earl of Fife, who dis- 
tinguished himself in quelling a rebellion among the Moray tribes 
against Malcolm IV., about the years 1 161-63. 

In 1904 Dove, Lockhart and Smart, lawyers of Edinburgh, 
wrote to Charles Sumner Macomber, lawyer of Ida Grove, Iowa, 
as follows : 

Judging from your name we should say you were undoubtedly 
a Scot by origin. The name "Macomber," in its various 
forms, "McCoombe," "McCumber," "Macomber," "McOmish," 
"McCombie" is well known here. As you are no doubt aware 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY g 

it is claimed (and the claim we believe is generally admitted) that 
the Macombers are a branch of the clan Mcintosh— also some- 
times called the Shaws. The branch was founded by Shaw 
McDuff, second son of the fifth Earl of Fife. As you are also 
no doubt aware the clan Mcintosh was one of the clans which 
took part in the memorable duel on the North Inch of Perth 
Vide Scott's "Fair Maid of Perth," where they are designated the 
"Clan Chattan." You will also see in Scott's "Waverly" that 
a scion of the clan, "Evan Dhu Maccombish," is one of the lead- 
ing personages. 



3ol)tt 5tfcacomber of Taunton 

AND HIS DESCENDANTS 



The old tradition concerning "three brothers" who came to 
America seems to be verified in the case of the Macombers, for 
\J/iniam was in Duxbury in 1638; Thomas in Plymouth in 1643; 
and John in Taunton in 1643. No descendants of Thomas have 
been found. Those of William are numerous. The descendants 
of John are t raced her e. 

John Macomber was admitted as a freeman and enrolled in the 
militia of Taunton in 1643. He was granted permis- 
sion to build a mill in Taunton in 1659. There were then four 
persons in his family, and there is no record of more. The name 
of his first wife has not been learned. He married, 7 Jan. 1686, 
as his second wife, Mary Babcock. He was in a military com- 
pany in 1680. He was living in 1687, as shown by a deed. 
Another deed shows that he died before 1690. He was a car- 
penter by trade. His property was equally divided between a 
daughter, Mary Staples, and a son, John Macomber. 

John Macomber, 2d, signed a deed with his father in 1672, 
showing that he was then of age. He served in military com- 
panies in 1680 and 1700 and also in Queen Anne's War in 1691. 
He married, 16 July 1678, Anna Evans, daughter of William and 
Ann (Hailstone) Evans of Taunton. 

William Evans was enrolled in the militia of Taunton in 1643 
and took the oath of fidelity there in 1657. He married Ann 
Hailstone, probably daughter of William Hailstone, who was one 
of the first purchasers of Taunton in 1637 and was living there 
in 1672. The inventory of the estate of William Evans was made 
16 Sept. 1 67 1. He left daughters Mary and Anna. 

June 28, 1723, John Macomber, "oldest of that name in Taun- 
ton," and Anna his wife sold to their son Thomas land in Taun- 
ton on "Mill River," — See County Records at Taunton, XVI.51. 

Jan. 5, 1724-5, Anna Macomber, "for good cause," sold to her 
son Thomas land in Taunton. Her husband was then dead. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY II 

The rights of her grandsons, Abiel and William, are protected in 
this deed. See Deeds at Taunton, XVI.52. 

July 7, 1725, Anna Macomber, widow, sold to her son Thomas 
all undivided lands descended to her from her father, William 

Evans deceased and. from her mother Ann Hailstone deceased. 

See Deeds at Taunton, XVI. 178. 

March 20, 1681, Mary and Anna Evins, heirs of William Evins 
deceased, sold land to J. French for sixty pounds. Following 
the date the deed says, "It is always to be understood that though 
the abovesaid Anna is Anna Macomber by her marrying of John 
Macomber, Jr., but when this abovesaid bargaine was made her 
name was Anna Evins." See Deeds at Taunton, XXVII. 128. 

Jan. 29, 1700- 1, John Macomber, "son of John Macomber late 
of Taunton deceased," sold land to Nathan Walker.— See deeds 
at Taunton, XVI. 326. 

Dec. 6, 1 72 1, John Macomber sold to his son Samuel for £300 
the house that Samuel was living in, also other lands except one 
tract lying within the bounds of said lands known as the "old 
Beaver dam," also one-half his right in the saw mill on said land, 
also "| of a purchase right in the old township of Taunton," also 
one-half his right in Middleboro 16 shilling purchase. See 
Deeds at Taunton, XIV.84. 

Feb. 15, 1724-5, John Macomber and Samuel Macomber quit- 
claimed to Thomas Macomber all right to their father John 
Macomber's property other than that which he had given them 
by deed. See Deeds at Taunton, XVI.47. 

The will of John Macomber is dated 22 Jan. 172 1-2 and was 
probated 21 Oct. 1725. In it he names wife, children Thomas, 
John, William and Samuel, and grandchildren Abiel, William, 
Anna and Sarah. John Macomber is mentioned as deceased in a 
deed dated 5 Jan. 1724-5. His four sons lived in Taunton. 

3. Thomas b. 30 July 1679; m. Mary . 

. 4. John b. 18 March 1681 ; m. Elizabeth Williams. 

5. William b. 31 Jan. 1684; m. Sarah Hollaway. 

6. Samuel b. ; m. Sarah Pierce. 



12 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

THIRD GENERATION 

3 

Thomas Macomber (John 2 , John 1 ), born 30 July 1679, was 
a physician in Taunton, Mass. July 8, 1736, Thomas Macomber 
of Taunton deeded to his oldest son, Stephen, land at "Neck of 
Land," also his homestead on Mill River and a lot in Pine 
Swamp. His will, dated 7 June 1766, was probated 26 Feb. 1770. 
It names wife Mary and children Stephen, John, James, Mercy 
Willis, and Hannah Woodward. "Old Granny Macomber" died 
in Taunton 3 April 1775. 

7. Stephen b. ; m. 4 1738, Abigail Robin- 
son. 

8. John b. 20 June 1719; m. Abigail Padelford. 

9. James b. 1726; m. Ruth Williams, (2) Han- 
nah Simmons. 

Mercy b. ; m. (1) Matthew Cummings, 11 

July 1740; (2) Samuel Willis 4 June 1746. 

Hannah b. ; m. Josiah Woodward of Norton, 

Mass. He was born in 171 1 and died 5 Jan. 1771. 

4 

John Macomber (John 2 , John 1 ), born, 18 March 1681 in 
Taunton, was impressed as a soldier in Queen Anne's War 22 
Dec. 1 70 1, and again 26 June 171 1. He married (1) 17 March 
1707, Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Rogers) 
Williams, who was born in Taunton 18 April 1686, and died 2 
May 1732. She was granddaughter of Richard Williams, called 
the "Father of Taunton," whose wife was Frances, daughter of 
John and Jane (Basset) Deighton ; also granddaughter of John 
and Ann (Churchman) Rogers and great-granddaughter of 
Thomas Rogers who came in the Mayflower. 

John Macomber married (2), 12 July 1733, in Raynham, 
Mass., Mrs. Lydia (King) Williams, widow of Nathaniel Wil- 
liams. She died 31 March 1748. John Macomber died in 
Taunton, Mass., 14 Dec. 1747. 

His will, dated 28 Dec. 1742, was probated 5 April 1748. It 
names wife Lydia and children Nathaniel, Josiah, John, James, 
Elijah, Joseph, Elizabeth Rounsevill, Abia and Anna. His son 
Elijah inherited the homestead in East Taunton. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



13 



J an - 5> l 7?>2, John Macomber of Taunton deeded to his son 
Nathaniel one-third of his home farm, one corner being at the 
saw mill. The same day he gave to son Josiah one-third of the 
same farm. The burial ground, where rest the early generations 
of Macombers, is on Staples Street not far from the Macomber 
farm. 

The record of the family of John Macomber has been pre- 
served in a branch of his descendants now living in Augusta, 
Maine. It was, perhaps, copied from the records of Taunton 
before they were destroyed by fire in 1848. His children, all by 
the first marriage, were : 

10. Nathaniel b. 9 Feb. 1709; m. Priscilla Southworth. 

11. Josiah b. 19 Feb. 171 1 ; m. Ruth Paul. 

12. John b. 10 Feb. 1713; m. Elizabeth Phinney. 
Elizabeth b. 15 March 1715; m. Wm. Rounsevill, (2) 

Wm. Ashley. 

13. James b. 12 Sept. 1717; m. Rachel Drake. 

14. Elijah b. 25 Oct. 1718; m. Judith Williams. 
Mary b. 30 July 1721 ; not named in will, 1742. 
Abiah b. 8 June 1724; m. Israel Dean; d. s. p. 
Annah b. 2 Jan. 1726; m. John Smith. Pub. 12 Aug. 

1749. 8 ch. 

15. Joseph b. 28 March 1732; m. Thankful Canedy. 

5 
William Macomber (John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 31 Jan. 
1683; married, 3 January 1705-6, Sarah Holloway. He was 
impressed as a soldier 7 June 171 1. He died about 1715, and 
there is no later record of his wife. His father's will names four 
children of his son William, viz., Abiel, William, Anna and Sarah. 
Dec. 3, 1760, there was a division of land left by Elizabeth Wil- 
liams, wife of Jonathan Williams and daughter of Thomas Leon- 
ard, Esq., late of Taunton, between her children, one of whom 
was Abiah, wife of Abiel Macomber. — See Deeds at Taunton, 
XLVII.17. 

March 20, 1730-1, Sarah Macomber, daughter of William 
Macomber deceased, above fourteen years of age, chose her 
brother Abiel for guardian to act in settlement of her father's 
estate and of her brother William's estate, who died intestate 
without issue. 



14 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sept. 8, 1735, Jonathan Hoar petitioned the court to appoint 
a guardian for his daughter Anna, who was then seven years 
old and had a claim on the estate of John Macomber through her 
mother. 

The children of William and Sarah (Holloway) Macomber 
were: 

Abiel m. 3 May 1733, Abiah, dau. of Jonathan and Eliza- 
beth (Leonard) Williams. He died about 1735, probably s. p. 
His widow died 13 Jan. 1782, in her 69th year. 

William d. s. p. before 20 March 1730-1. 

Anna m. Jonathan Hoar. Daughter Anna, b. 1729, m. 14 
June 1744, Seth Hodges. 

Sarah, minor over 14, unmarried 20 March, 1730-1 ; perhaps 
m. 11 April 1734, Judah Chase of Swansea, Mass. 



Samuel Macomber (John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, appears 
as grantee and grantor of land in Taunton from 1721 to 1734. 
He was probably living in 1754, when Samuel Macomber, Jr., of 
Berkeley, received a deed of land in Rehoboth. He probably 
married Sarah, dau. of Isaac and Alice (Chartley?) Pierce of 
Middleborough. Isaac Pierce, born in 1661, died in Lakeville, 
Mass., 28 Feb. 1731-2, in the 71st year of his age, son of Abra- 
ham and Abigail (Peterson) Pierce and grandson of Abraham 
Pierce of Plymouth. His will, 1722, names a daughter, Sarah 
Macomber, who can be accounted for only as wife of Samuel 
Macomber. 

The following were probably children of Samuel Macomber. 
There may have been also daughters. 

16. Samuel b. about 1721 ; m. Zipporah Crane, 5 April 1750. 

17. Job b. 1728; m. Hannah Woodward. 



FOURTH GENERATION 

7 

Stephen Macomber (Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taun- 
ton, married 4 , 1738, Abigail, daughter of Increase and 

Mehitable (Williams) Robinson and lived in Taunton. His will, 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1 5 

dated 6 July 1787, was probated 27 Nov. 1797. It names the fol- 
lowing children : 

18. George b. 2 July 1751 ; m. (1) Amittia ; (2) 

Susannah Soper. 

19. Jonathan b. 5 April 1753 ; m. Lydia Andrews, 8 Aug. 

1775- 

20. Stephen b. ; m. Linthe Macomber, 4 Nov. 1766. 

Phebe b. ; unmarried in 1792; perhaps m. Darius 

Caswell of Taunton, 9 June 1804. 

Abigail b. ; m. Henry Jones of Dighton, 3 Jan. 

1770. 

8 

John Macomber (Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 
20 June 1719, married Abigail Padelford and lived in Taunton, 
She died 15 Aug. 1793, as her tombstone shows. The Providence 
Chronicle says she died in her 71st year. Children: 

21. Ebenezer b. ; 1751 ; m. Abigail Packard, 6 March 

1784. 

22. Nathan b. 15 Oct. 1752; m. Mary Read. 

Ira b. . Unm. Tradition says he was killed 

in battle in the Revolutionary War. 

23. Rufus b. , 1758; m. Bathsheba Hathaway, 19 Jan. 

1796. 

Mary b. ; m. Amos Allen, 24 March, 1767. 

24. John b. 18 May 1760; m. Mary Dean. 

Huldah b. 1766; m. Philip Hathaway, 15 

Nov. 1 79 1 ; d. s. p. 16 Aug. 1807. 

Lydia b. ; m. (1) Chaffee, (2) Sam- 
uel Godfrey. 

Abigail b. ; m. Philip Dean of Taunton. 

9 
James Macomber (Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) born in Taunton 
in 1726, married, 13 May 1760, Mrs. Ruth (Reed) Williams, 
daughter of George and Sarah (Whitmarsh) Reed and widow 
of Joshua Williams. She was born 3 Nov. 1727 and died 10 
Oct. 1770. He married (2) June 1772, Hannah, daughter of 
Oliver Simmons of Dighton, Mass., who died 21 May 181 1, aged 



l6 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

74 years. He died in Taunton 20 Jan. 1820, aged 94 years. Four 
children by first marirage and three by second : 

Zilpah b. 1761 ; m. 30 Oct. 1781, Dyer Pratt; 

d. 29 Sept. 1830. 

25. Joshua Williams b. 1763; m. Deliverance Hart, 26 Feb. 
1789. 

Mary b. 2j Aug. 1765; m. 22 Oct. 1788, Solomon Bates 
of Hanover, Mass.; d. 1853 in Fayette, Me. 
Ruth b. 1770; m. Israel Dean. 

26. James b. 3 July 1773; m. Sarah Martindale, 14 Mch. 181 1. 
Hannah b. April 1775 ; m. Samuel Staples, Jr., 9 Feb. 

1800. 

27. Thomas b. 20 June 1778; m. Nancy Stevens, 4 Jan. 1801. 

10 
Nathaniel Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taun- 
ton 9 Feb. 1709, married, 13 Nov. 1735, Priscilla, daughter of 
Ichabod and Esther (Hodges) Southvvorth of Middleborough, 
Mass. She was descended from James Chilton who came in the 
Mayflower. He was a deacon in the Congregational Church. 
His tombstone in Lakeville, Mass., says that he died 10 Nov. 
1787, in the 79th year of his age. His wife, born 11 Feb. 1709- 
10, died 30 Oct. 1793, in the 84th year of her age. Children 
according to an old family record : 

28. Job b. 3 Nov. 1737; m. Abigail Pitts. 

29. George b. 7 July 1740; m. Susannah Paul. 

30. Nathaniel b. 22 July 1742 ; m. Bathsheba Godfrey. 

31. Ichabod b. 13 May 1745; m. Rachel Hall. 
Ezra b. 3 Oct. 1747; d. 27 Sept. 1756. 
John b. 18 Aug. 1750; d. 12 Oct. 1756. 

1 1 
Josiah Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 
19 Feb. 171 1, married, 29 Nov. 1736, Ruth, daughter of Benja- 
min and Ruth ( ) Paul of Berkley, Mass. He was com- 
missioned Lieut, in the militia of Taunton in 1762. He died in 
Taunton 18 Nov. 1801, in the 91st year of his age. His wife 
born 4 Feb. 171 1, died 19 Sept. 1791. Children: 

Betsey b. 14 Oct. 1737; m. Samuel Haskell of Middle- 
borough, 20 June 1765 ; d. 3 Sept. 1825 at N. Brookfield. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY IJ 

32. Abiel b. 1738; m. Phebe Dean. 
Ruth b. 1743; d. 8 Oct. 1756. 

Rebecca b. 1750; m. Joseph Goodwin of Dighton, Mass., 
21 Sept. 1769. 

12 

John Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 10 
Feb. 1713, married 27 Jan. 1746, Elizabeth Phinney of Middle- 
borough. He lived in Middleborough, where he was a deacon in 
the church. He is called ''Dr. John Macomber" in a deed. He 
died 9 Nov. 1774. His wife died 14 Jan. 1775, aged 48 years. 
Both are buried at the "Old Pond Cemetery" in Lakeville, Mass. 
In 1775 Job Macomber was made guardian of the children of 
John Macomber of Middleborough, viz., John, Samuel, Cyrus, 
Enoch, and Elizabeth, minors, the last three being under fourteen 
years of age. The division of estate^ in 1779 names also a 
daughter Mary and a daughter Abiah, wife of Benjamin Reed. 
See Plymouth Probate Records, Vols. XXII. and XXIII. 
Abiah b. ; m. Benjamin Reed, 23 Oct. 1768. 

2i2>- John b. ; m. Eleanor Pierce of Rochester, Mass., 

21 Oct. 1779. 

34. Samuel b. ; m. Phebe Pierce of Rochester, 17 

March 1779. 

Mary b. ; m. Daniel Weston, 27 Nov. 1788. 

Elizabeth b. ; m. Lt. John Townsend, Jr. 30 Oct. 

1777. 

35. Cyrus b. ; m. prob. 24 Sept. 1796, in Shutes- 

bury, Mass., Sarah Hoar of New Salem, Mass. 

36. Enoch b. ; m. Tabitha Raymond, 22 Oct. 1795. 

13 

James Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 12 

Sept. 1717, married, 4 Feb. 1747, Rachel Drake, dau. of James 

and Miriam, of Weymouth and Brookfield, Mass., and lived in 

Berkley, Mass. He died 31 Dec. 1803. His wife died 9 Dec. 

1809, aged 83 years. 

Linthe b. 10 Jan. 1749; m. Stephen Macomber, 4 Nov. 
1766. 

2>7. Elijah b. 25 Jan. 1750-51 ; m. Zilpah Thrasher, 20 June 

1775- 



l8 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

James b. 18 Aug. 1753 ; seaman in the Navy 14 Sept. 1780, 
aged 27. Not named in father's will, 1797. 

Josiah b. 1 March 1757; m. Abigail Briggs of Berkley, 
30 March 1784. Revolutionary soldier. Wife died 26 April 
1785, aged 21 years. He became von compos mentis and received 
a pension after 1818. 

Miriam b. 5 Nov. 1760; m. 17 Nov. 1793, Ezra Briggs 
of Berkley, his third wife. 3 ch. 

Eleanor b. 3 Aug. 1763; m. 27 Sept. 1785, Capt. Joseph 
Sanford of Berkley; d. 12 Aug. 1845. 

38. Venus b. 12 Jan. 1775 ; m. Welthea Pierce, 25 June 1797. 

14 

Elijah Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 
25 Oct. 1718, married (1) 10 Feb. 1742, Judith, daughter of 
Nathaniel and Lydia (King) Williams, who died 1 Oct. 1743, in 
her 23d year, (2) Sarah Pitts, who died 30 May 1810 in 
her 82d year. He died 3 Feb. 1802 in his 84th year. They are 
buried in a cemetery on Staples Street, between Precinct and 
East Taunton. In his will, dated 18 Jan. 1802, he gave fifty dol- 
lars to "Elijah Macomber, son of my brother Joseph Macomber 
late of Middleborough, deceased." He was Captain in the 
militia in 1772. Children : 

Judith, died 6 Oct. 1770, aged 16 years. 

Betsey b. 1756; m. Dr. Philip Padelford of Taunton; d. 1849. 

Jane b. 1760; d. 15 March 1801. Unm. 

Sarah b. 17 Aug. 1763 ; m. 24 March 1803, Joseph Atwood 
of Dighton; d. 30 Oct. 1863, aged 104 years. 

15 

Lt. Joseph Macomber (John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), was born in 
Taunton 28 March 1732. His mother died five weeks after his 
birth. He married, 16 March 1762, Thankful, daughter of Capt. 
William and Elizabeth (Eaton) Canedy of Taunton, Mass. 
Through her mother she was descended from Francis Eaton, 
Samuel Fuller and John Billington, all of the Mayflower. 

Joseph Macomber appears with rank of Corporal in Captain 
Thomas Cobb's Co., Col. John Winslow's Regiment, engaged for 
the defence of the eastern Frontiers. Mustered at Castle Island, 
21 June 1754. — Mass. Archives, Vol. 93, p. 140. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 19 

He appears on a muster roll dated 31 Jan. 1759 of a company 
of foot in his Majesty's service under Capt. Job Winslow in Col. 
Jedediah Preble's Regiment, raised by the province of Massachu- 
setts Bay for the reduction of Canada. Town, Taunton, quality, 
first Lieut. Entered service 13 March and served till 13 Nov. 
Length of service 8 Mos. 22 days. Days travel, 15. — Mass. 
Archives, Vol. 96, p. 472. 

He appears on a muster roll dated Boston, Dec. 13, 1760, of a 
company in his Majesty's service under command of Capt. John 
Taplin. Quality, Lieut. Residence, Taunton. Entered service 
Mar. 31, 1759. Served until Nov. 21, 1760. Length of service, 
21 months, 14 days. Company at Fort Cumberland. — Mass. 
Archives, Vol. 98, p. 213. 

He appears in a list of officers and privates brought as passen- 
gers on board the sloop "Prosperous," John Bragdon, master, 
from Fort Cumberland Chignecto to Boston. Rank, Lieut. 
Account of Bragdon for the passage money dated Nov. 24, 1760. 
— Mass. Archives, Vol. 97, p. 434 A. 

Joseph Macomber was Lieut, in Capt. Abiel Pierce's Company 
of Minute Men, that responded to the "Alarm," 19 April 1775. 
Time of service, two days. He was Sergeant in Capt. Levi 
Rounsevill's Company, Col. D. Brewer's Regiment, enlisting 5 
May 1775 and serving three months and four days. He was 
commisisoned Lieut, in Capt. Edward Seagrovy's Company, 13th 
Regiment, commanded by Col. Joseph Read, 8 Jan. 1776, by 
order of Congress, signed by John Hancock, President. So read 
his commission, which I remember distinctly to have seen. It 
was preserved for more than a century in the family of his grand- 
son, Leonard Macomber of Durham, Maine, but was accidentally 
destroyed. 

A deed at Plymouth, Mass., dated 25 Feb. 1800, shows where 
Joseph Macomber lived. "Joseph Macomber and Elijah Macom- 
ber 2d and Abraham Miller and Thankful Miller his wife and 
Isaac Thomas 2d and Judith Thomas his wife and Olive Macom- 
ber, Loraney Macomber and Hannah Macomber, and all of the 
town of Middleborough — to William Rounsville of Middle- 
borough certain property known as Assawampsett Neck, land we 
own as heirs to our deceased father Joseph Macomber by name, — 
all the aforesaid forty-fifth and forty-sixth lots we hold as heirs 



20 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

to our deceased mother Thankful Macomber by name," to have 
and to hold, etc., — "and that part of the 28th and 29th lots of 
land that our deceased father holds by deed under the hand and 
seal of Benjamin Booth deceased." 

Joseph Macomber lived in that part of Middleborough which 
in now Lakeville, on a neck of land between two lakes. The 
house in which he and also his son Joseph lived is still standing. 
He and his wife and daughter, Lurana (Sanderson), are buried in 
the "Old Pond Cemetery," on the border of the lake in Lakeville. 
The tombstone of his wife is broken and the inscription can not 
be read. The inscription on his tombstone is as follows : 

In memory of 

Lieut. Joseph Macomber who 

Died J awry 25 1800 

in his 68th year. 

Joseph Macomber's children are recorded on the leaf of an old 
diary, still preserved and in the possession of the writer of this. 
The record seems to have been made by himself between the years 
1780 and 1788. It may have been brought from Middleborough 
to Durham, Me., in an old writing-desk still kept. 

39. Joseph b. 8 Sept. 1762 ; m. Alethea Robinson. 
Thankful b. 21 Jan. 1764; m. 5 July 1795 Abraham Mil- 
ler; d. s. p. in Middleborough, 17 June 1853. 

Betsey b. 24 March 1765 ; d. 28 Aug. 1784. 
Nathan b. 2 Feb. 1767; d. 10 Aug. 1788. 
Frederick b. 29 Dec. 1768; d. before 1800. Unm. 

40. Elijah b. 14 Oct. 1770; m. Eliza Swett. 

Judith b. 24 Aug. 1772; m. 27 Aug. 1795, Isaac Thomas 

2d. 

Olive b. 20 March 1774; m. 10 April 1802, Gamaliel 
Samson. Said to have died in Mesopotamia, Ohio. 

Lurana b. 19 Feb. 1778; m. Phineas Sanderson; d. 29 
Sept. 185 1. 

Hannah b. 23 May 1780; d. unm. 28 March 1827. A 
Quaker preacher. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 21 

l6 

Samuel Macomber (Samuel 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 
about 1721, is called Samuel Jr. of Berkley in 1754. He married, 

5 April 1750, Zipporah, daughter of John and Hannah ( ) 

Crane of Berkley, Mass., and lived in Rehoboth, Mass. He died 
17 March, 1774, in the 53d year of his age. His wife died 14 
Sept. 1814, in her 86th year. He was a shoemaker by trade. His 
will, dated 22 Oct. 1773, was probated 18 April 1774. It names 
wife Zipporah and following children : 

Sarah bapt. in Berkley 24 Feb. 1750-51 ; m. 3 Feb. 1774 
Pentecost Blackington of Rehoboth. 

41. John bapt. in Berkley 5 July 1752; m. Olive Shepardson. 

42. Lemuel b. 15 April 1754; m. Tabitha Capron. 

Lydia b. ; m. 30 April 1772 Paul Sanford 

of Attleborough, Mass. 

17 

Job Macomber (Samuel", John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, was 
a shoemaker there in 1749. He is called "boatman" in 1757 and 
1774. He seems to have fallen into financial difficulties, and 
various pieces of land owned by him were seized by the sheriff 
and sold. He sold his homestead in Taunton, 16 July 1774. His 
wife was Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Fisher) 
Woodward of Norton, Mass. Published 1 July 1758. She was 
born 6 Dec. 1741. He was a revolutionary soldier for the town 
of Warwick, Mass., in 1780. He enlisted for three years, and 
several previous enlistments are recorded. His age was given as 
52 years in 1780. The death of Job Macomber is recorded in 
Warwick, Mass., 17 Nov. 1816. He is called Captain in 1791. 

Dec. 21, 1772, Joseph Woodward of Norton relinquished to 
Samuel Macomber, Thomas Macomber, and Job Macomber, 
minors, sons of Job Macomber of Taunton, for five pounds, his 
right in dwelling and land lately bought of said Job, in Taunton, 
only reserving to said Job the use and improvement of said prem- 
ises during his life. His children, then, so far as known, were : 

Samuel, living in Orange, Mass., in 1816, with wife Betsey. 

Thomas, died in Taunton 21 June 1776. 

Job, living in Orange, Mass., in 1820. 

Hannah, named in a deed, 1777. 



22 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Pub. in Barre, Mass., 9 Aug. 1825, Daniel Bailey and Mercy 
McCumber of Orange. A woman named Macomber died at the 
town farm in Orange about 1845, aged 100 years. 



FIFTH GENERATION 
18 

George Macomber (Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
2 July 1 75 1, has the following family, except the last two, 
recorded in Taunton. A first wife, Amittia, died 18 July 1777, 
in the 21st year of her age. Tombstone in Taunton. He m. 
(2) June 1780, Susanna, daughter of Capt. Oliver and Ruth 
(Staples) Soper. In early life be was a sea-captain. In 1797 
with his whole family he moved to Utica, N. Y., where he died 5 
April 1813. His wife, born I Aug. 1764, died 9 Apr. 1813. — 
See Pioneers of Utica, p. 74. 

George b. 11 March 1781 at 5 p.m. 

Amity H. b. 10 Sept. 1782 at 8 a.m. 

Daughter b. 14 May 1784; d. 30 May 1784. 

Susannah b. 18 Sept. 1785 at 2 a.m.; m. Abner Brownell Jan. 
1808. 

Lewis b. 1 Oct. 1786 at 7 a.m. 

Abigail b. 25 Oct. 1789 at 6 p.m.; m. Charles Smith 29 Oct. 
1809 ; d. 16 Aug. 1834. 

Horace H. b. 25 Dec. 1791 at 9 a.m. 

Calvin E. b. 16 Jan. 1794 at 11 a.m. 

Stephen Blanchard b. 20 May 1796 at 1 a.m. 

Sally S. b. 5 Aug. 1799. 

David D. b. 10 Aug. 1804; m. Esther White. 

19 

Jonathan Macomber (Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton 5 April 1753, married, 8 Aug. 1775, Lydia, 
daughter of Lt. Samuel and Abigail (Cobb) Andrews. He 
removed from Taunton to Conway, Mass., in the summer of 1809, 
where he died 30 Sept. 1834. His wife was born 17 May 1749 
and died 29 Feb. 1814. Children : 

43. Charles b. 30 June 1784; m. Fannie Godfrey, 17 Dec. 
1807. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 23 

44. Jonathan b. 22 Aug. 1792; m. Lydia Bacon, (2) Achsah 
Thatcher. 

Lydia b. 17 March, 1776; m. Seth Crossman, 1 Dec. 1788. 

Dowin b. 26 July 1778; d. 14 Sept. 1780. 

Jonathan b. 22 Oct. 1781 ; d. 12 Sept. 1792. 

Nancy b. 3 Nov. 1786. 

Julia b. 12 July, 1790; d. 23 July 1791. 

Fannie b. 6 Sept. 1795 ; m. Loveridge. 

20 
Stephen Macomber (Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., married, 4 Nov. 1766, Linthe, dau. of James 
and Rachel (Drake) Macomber. He was a shipwright and was 
drowned in Taunton River, at the Neck of Land Bridge. 
Children : 

45. Philip b. 5 Aug. 1779; m. Mehitable Hood, 16 Jan. 1806. 
Clarinda, died 31 Aug. 1808, aged 24 years. 

Sinah b. ; m. Israel Briggs, 21 March 1791. 

Linthe b. 1781 ; m. Phineas Page. Lived in 

Pittsfield, Mass. She d. at age of 79. 

21 

Ebenezer Macomber (John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton in 1751, married, 6 March 1784, at Providence, R. I., 
Abigail, dau. of Nathaniel Packard. He was a Colonel in the 
Revolutionary Army. He kept a tavern many years in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. He died 5 April 1829, aged 76 years. Children so far as 
ascertained, the last three as conjectured: 

George, "oldest son," d. at Larinum, W. I., 9 March 181 1, in 
the 24th year of his age. 

Ann, d. in Providence, 16 Dec. 1862, aged 74 years. Unm. 

Ebenezer, d. 16 April 1815, in the 17th year of his age. 

Edward. He and William H. Macomber received deed of 8 
acres of land in Providence from Ebenezer Macomber, 13 Jan. 
1818. Isaac S., son of Edward Macomber, d. in Providence, 9 
Sept. 1864, aged 36 years. Another son, , d. 22 Nov. 1853. 

William H. 

Robert P. Witnessed a deed of land from Ebenezer to 
daughter Ann Macomber, in Providence, 1 April 1819. No 
record in Providence of disposition of any of these properties. 



24 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Samuel P. Samuel P. Macomber of Providence d. before 
1820, leaving widow Ann H. of the city of Dury, Georgia, and 
only son George Macomber, who is named in administration in 
1828. His guardian was Edward Macomber. — See Probate 
Records at Boston, Mass. He m. Ann Fitz Patrick of Savannah, 
5 Feb. 1812. 

22 

Nathan Macomber (John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton, Mass., 16 Oct. 1752; married — May 1772, Mary Read 
of Dighton, Mass. She was born Feb. 1760 and died 1 June 
1833. He died 15 Oct. 1847 a g e< i 96 years. Lived in Taunton. 

Ira b. 8 Aug. 1782; d. 27 May 1866; m. April 1825, Abigail 
Read. Had dau. Abigail Angeline, who m. 26 Oct. 1846, at age of 
20, Samuel H. Whitmore of New Bedford. She d. at age of 65 
yrs. 8 mos. 17 days. 

Polly b. April 1786; d. Oct. 1829. Unm. 

46. Asa Allen b. 3 July 1790; m. Hannah A. White, 6 Feb. 
1820. 

23 
Rufus Macomber (John 4 , Thomas 3 John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton, Mass., in 1758, married, 19 Jan. 1796, Bathsheba, dau. 
of Col. John Hathaway of Berkley, Mass. He died 27 Dec. 1849, 
aged 83 years. She died 23 March 1841, in her 63d (or 68th) 
year. Children : 

47. Ebenezer b. 10 Jan. 1797; m. Louisa Burt, 16 Nov. 1824. 
Roxana b. 21 Sept. 1798; m. 24 March 1825, Lot Strange 

of Freetown ; d. 27 Sept. 1858. He d. 24 Oct. 1852. 

48. Rufus b. 23 May 1801 ; m. Ruby Green. 
Bathsheba b. 9 May 1803; m. Isaac Record. 

49. John Hathaway b. Nov. 1806; m. Prudence A. Pierce. 

50. Daniel b. 17 Oct. 1809; m. Mary Howland, 13 June 1836. 

24 
John Macomber (John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton, Mass., 18 May 1760, married, 25 Aug. 1785, Mary dau. 
of Calvin Dean. He lived at Taunton, Oakham, Mass., and West- 
ford, Vt. His wife, born 23 March 1767, died at Westford, Vt., 
29 Nov. 1823. Both united with the Congregational Church 
there in 1821. He married (2) in Westford, 8 Dec. 1825, Betsey 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 25 

Robinson. He was a soldier in the Revolution, said to have been 
made deaf in the war. He died n Oct. 1841, as his tombstone 
declares in Westford, Vt. First four children born in Taunton, 
the rest in Oakham, Mass. 

51. Calvin Dean b. 7 June 1786; m. Bethiah A. Carver. 
Betsey b. 3 Sept. 1788 ; m. David Castle ; d. at Westford, 

Vt., 13 Feb. 1864. Ch., John, Philip and David. 

Mary b. 16 Aug. 1790; m. Samuel Thrasher, Jr. 14 March 
1815. She d. 18 Jan. 1848. 

Abigail G. b. 17 June 1792; m. 2 March 1831, Ephraim 

Heselton in Westford, Vt. ; (2) Stevens. She d. 21 Aug. 

1883. 

Harriet b. 11 Feb. 1795; m. (1) Harvey Fales, 26 March 
1816; (2) 11 Feb. 1845, Louis Howe at Oakham. 

52. John J. b. 11 Nov. 1796; m. Abigail F. Packard. 
Lydia b. 11 Dec. 1798; d. 11 Sept. 1815. 
Pliny b. 13 Oct. 1800; d. 11 Dec. 1815. 

Lewis b. 2 June 1803 ; d. 25 May 1825 at Millidgeville, Ga. 
Philip b. 15 Oct. 1805 > d - 13 Dec. 1813. 

53. Luther b. 13 Dec. 1808; m. Eliza Crawford. 
Sumner b. 17 June 181 1 ; d. unm. in N. H. 

25 

Joshua Williams Macomber (James 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., in 1763, married, 26 Feb. 1789, 
Deliverance, dau. of James and Hannah (Crane) Hart. She 
was born 6 Feb. 1767 and died 28 May 1832. He died 16 March 
1825, aged 62 years. He lived in Taunton. He had the follow- 
ing children and no grandchildren: 

Joshua b. 1790; d. 16 Feb. 1793. 

Amelia b. 24 Feb. 1792; d. 31 Dec. 1859. Unm. 

Joshua b. 8 April 1794; d. 20 June 1822 at Savannah, Ga. 
Unm. 

Bradford b. 4 Dec. 1796; d. 4 Aug. 1866. He left $50,000, 
which was divided by court among 42 heirs. 

Harriet M. b. 2 Aug. 1798; d. 24 Sept. 1857. 

James b. 11 Nov. 1801 ; d. 18 Dec. 1844. 

Hart b. 11 Nov. 1801 ; d. 2^ April 1863. 

Almira b. 3 Feb. 1803; d. 29 April 1866. 



26 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

26 

James Macomber (James 4 , Dr. Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., 3 July 1773, married, 14 March 181 1, Sarah, 
dau. of Gray and Mary (Culver) Martindale of Greenwich, N. 
Y. She was born 27 July 1792 and died 15 Aug. 1871. He 
died 7 April 1853. Teacher and farmer. Children born at 
Greenwich or Granville, Washington Co., N. Y., except the last, 
born at Ripley, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., whither he removed in 
1830, and where he died. 

Hannah S. b. 28 Dec. 1812; m. Anson L. Thomas, Cuba, N. 
Y. ; d. 5 May 1890. 

Mary b. 24 April 1815; m. Nicholas Jones, Westfield, N. Y. ; 
d. 20 March 1898. 

James b. 1 Oct. 18 17. Unm. Soldier in the Civil War. Died 
in Libby Prison Hospital, 18 Feb. 1864. 

John b. 24 April 1820; d. 18 Jan. 1843. Unm. 

Sarah b. 21 July 1822; d. 24 July 1899, at Westfield, N. Y. 
Unm. 

Son, b. 29 Sept. 1824; d. after ten days. 

Elizabeth b. 20 Oct. 1825; m. Ira Cross; d. 14 Oct. 1891. 

Ebenezer b. 28 Feb. 1828; m. (1) May 1849, Eleanor Dono- 
van, who d. 7 Oct. 1880; (2) Oct. 1882, Widow Julia Smith 
Clark in St. Thomas, Canada. He died 4 Nov. 1899, at Detroit, 
Mich. 3 ch. by first marriage, Sarah E., d. at age of 19 years; 
Clara Joanna, Erie, Pa. ; Charles John, m. Julia Ward of 
Palmyra, N. Y., and lives in Muncie, Ind., having one ch., Clara 
Bell. 

Esther J. b. 16 Feb. 1832. Unm. Lives at Westfield, N. Y. 

27 

Thomas Macomber (James 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., 20 June 1778, married 4 Jan. 1801, Nancy 
Stevens in Taunton. He settled at Page Brook, Chenango Co., 
N. Y., and died there 6 March 1825. She died 10 Nov. 1849. 
Melancy b. 19 Nov. 1801 ; d. Nov. 1804. 
53. a. James b. 18 June 1804; m. Clarissa Andreas. 
53. b. Thomas W. b. 6 Feb. 1807; m. Hannah Elliott. 

Louisa b. 6 Jan. 1810; m. Jacob Springsteen; d. 29 
Apr. 1848 at Greene, N. Y. . 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 2.J 

Sally Melancy b. 4 Aug. 1812; m. Ebenezer Smith. 
Died at Grattan, Mich. Son James Smith lives at Battle Creek, 
Mich. 

Emily b. 4 July 1814; m. Allen Searles. Lived at 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Polly b. 29 May 1817; m. John Bishop; d. at Say- 
brook, O. s. p. 

Horatio Brown b. 24 July 1819; m. Harriet Burrows. 
Daus. Charlotte who m. James Eldridge, and Carrie. 

28 

Rev. Job Macomber (Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., 3 Nov. 1737, married Abigail Pitts of Taun- 
ton. Published at Middleborough, 18 Feb. 1760. He was a 
soldier of the Revolution. He moved to Bowdoinham, Me., and 
was for many years pastor of the Baptist Church there, preach- 
ing extensively in other towns. He suffered from paralysis the 
last seven years of his life. He and his wife died at the home of 
their daughter, Abiah Stinson, in Richmond. His death occurred 
about 1810 or later. 

John b. 1761 ; m. 12 Sept. 1787, Rebecca Hatch. 

54. Seth b. 7 Feb. 1762; m. Katharine Pratt, 17 Sept. 1784. 

55. Southworth b. 6 April 1764; m. Mehitable Sedgeley, 
(2) Hannah Williams. 

56. Ebenezer b. 5 March 1766; m. Abigail Robinson. 
Priscilla b. 28 Feb. 1768; m. Robert Stinson. 

Abiah b. March 1770; m. 13 Apr. 1792, Rev. Wm. Stin- 
son, brother of Robert Stinson above. 

Abigail b. 13 April 1772; m. 5 March 1794 Wm. Stin- 
son, cousin to Rev. William Stinson above. 

Lydia b. 1774; m. 20 May 1796, Charles Stinson, brother 
to William Stinson above. 

Job b. 1776; drowned when a young man. 

Sally b. 1778; d. at age of 23 years. 

Abner b. 1780; lost off Cape Hatteras in 1806. 

57. James b. 1782; m. 27 Aug. 1805, Mary Marson. 
Phebe b. 1784; d. at age of 9 years. 

58. Joseph b. 1786. 



28 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

29 

George Macomber (Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John-. John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., 7 July 1740, married, 27 Jan. 1767, Susan- 
nah, dau. of Ebenezer and Susannah (Williams) Paul of Berk- 
ley, Mass. She was born 16 Jan. 1746-7 and died in 1839, aged 
93 years. He moved to Shutesbury, Mass., about 1794, and 
died there July 1820, aged 80 years. 

May 24, 1788, there was a division of the estate of Nathaniel 
Macomber of Taunton among his children, George, Ichabod, 
Nathaniel. Priscilla, widow of Nathaniel, released her thirds. 
George received land on which he was living in Taunton, also 
land in Cotley (a locality in the eastern part of Taunton) and 
land in Berkley, bounded by land of Joseph and James Macom- 
ber. He also had the whole right or share of his brother Job, 
who was oldest son. Nathaniel lived in Middleborough and 
took land there. Ichabod took the homestead in Taunton, 
bounded by land of Josiah Macomber and Capt. Macomber. 
Signed by Priscilla, George, Nathaniel and Ichabod Macomber. 
Witnessed by Job and Abial Macomber. See Deed at Taunton, 
LXVII.131. 

March 14, 1788, Job Macomber, "clerk," of Bowdoinham, sold 
to his brother George Macomber all his right to land in Taun- 
ton, that he inherited from his father Nathaniel, deceased, and 
land from his mother Priscilla in Middleborough. — See Deed at 
Taunton, XXXVII. 130. 

Children of George Macomber, as found in an old paper pre- 
served by his grandson, George Macomber. 

Mary b. 29 Oct. 1767; m. 3 Nov. 1800 Wm. Oliver; 1. in 
New York State. 

59. Ezra b. 18 July 1769; m. 2y Dec. 1792, Wealthy Hodges. 

60. John, twin to Ezra; m. 1 Nov. 1795, Silence Briggs. 
Axalla b. 21 Sept. 1 77 1 ; d. 7 Nov. 1771. 

61. George b. 17 Sept. 1772; m. 17 Sept. 1801, Anne Hark- 
ness. 

62. Paul b. 18 June 1775; m. 2 Oct. 1802, Priscilla Macom- 
ber. 

Nathaniel b. 27 Dec. 1777; m. Tamson Richardson. 
Pub. 7 Nov. 1802. He d. s. p. 17 Aug. 1856. She d. 26 Jan. 
1854, aged yy. He was a farmer in Shutesbury. Mass. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 29 

Susannah b. i April 1780; m. 22 Sept. 1801, Gardner 
Leach. 

Philena b. 19 Aug. 1782; m. 31 Dec. 1805, Nathaniel 
Gray of Pelham. 

63. Ebenezer b. 12 May 1785; m. Sally Ann Jewell. 
Samuel b. 6 July 1787; m. (1) Annie Richardson. Pub. 

8 Dec. 1817. She was dau. of Thomas Richardson and d. at 
Wendell, Mass., 1 June 1845, a g ed 54-6-14- He m. (2) Sarah 
Felton, who d. s. p. 1 June 1856, aged 64-1 1-5, born at New 
Salem. He m. (3) at Ware, Mass., 11 Jan. i860, Mrs. Cather- 
ine Demond, age 67, dau. of James and Sarah Lemmon. She 
d. in Ware 20 Aug. 1863, aged 70-5-10. He d. at Ware 11 
March i860, aged 72, and willed all his property to the A. B. C. 
F. M. He is said to have had three children by first marriage, 
Joel, who d. young ; Lorinda, unm. ; and Augusta, who m. a Mr. 
Wilbur of New Salem, Mass., s. p. 

Nathaniel Macomber (Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass., 2 July 1742, married Bathsheba Godfrey 
and lived in Middleboroough, Mass. He died 7 July 1814. She 
died 3 Dec. 1818, aged 70 years. 

Bathsheba b. 14 April 1770; d. 14 Feb. 1772. 

Daniel b. 2 Sept. 1771 ; m. 24 Oct. 1802 Abigail, dau. of 
William Pierce ; d. s. p. 27 Feb. 1861 in Lakeville, Mass. She d. 
2 Feb. 1861, aged 81 years 6 months. 

Theodora b. 2 April 1774; d. unm. in the 100th year of 
her age. 

64. Ichabod b. 25 Jan. 1776; m. 25 Jan. 1805, Alethea D. 
Sumner. 

Priscilla b. 18 Feb. 1778; m. 2 Oct. 1802, her cousin, 
Paul Macomber of Shutesbury, Mass. 

65. Ard b. 25 Feb. 1780; m. 1 June 1807, Wealthy Eddy. 
Sally b. 6 March 1783; not named in her father's will, 

1813. 

Bathsheba b. 17 Feb. 1785; d. 12 Dec. 1820. Unm. 

66. Nathaniel b. 31 Jan. 1787; m. 28 Aug. 1820, Mary S. 
Weston. 



3<D MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Prudence b. 17 April 1789; m. 7 Apr. 1816, Barnard 
Dean. 

Abigail b. 16 Mch. 1791 ; m. Maj. Harry Jackson of 
Lakeville. 

3i 

Ichabod Macomber (Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., 13 May 1745, married Rachel, daughter of 

Benjamin and Phebe ( ) Hall of Raynham, Mass. He 

was adjudged non compos mentis in 1796 and died about 181 1. 
He was a soldier of the Revolution. Children are said to have 
been: 

67. Leonard b. 1782; m. 12 March 1807 Susanna 

Greene. 

Abijah Saunders b. ; m. 14 March 1844, Abby 

Dean at Stoughton, Mass., both of Boston. 
Hannah. 
Samuel. 

32 

Abiel Macomber (Josiah 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton in 1738, married Phebe, daughter of Ebenezer and 
Rachel (Allen) Dean and lived in East Taunton on a portion of 
the original Macomber farm. He was Lieut, in Jacob Hoskins' 
Company in the Revolutionary Army. He died 18 Nov. 1821, 
aged 82. His wife died 13 Dec. 1822, in her 78th year, as her 
tombstone shows. They were buried in the cemetery on Staples 
Street, between Precinct and East Taunton. The births of their 
children are here given as copied from an old Bible. 

Ruth b. 1 June 1764; m. Edward Paul, 11 May 1794. 

Phebe b. 5 Dec. 1766. 

Rebecca b. 25 July 1769; m. Edmund Burt, 25 Oct. 1798. 

Rachel Allen b. 2 Jan. 1772; m. Luther Lincoln, 9 Feb. 
1792. 

Matilda b. 4 May 1774; m. Terry Crane, 18 Feb. 1802; d. 13 
Sept. 1802. 

Elizabeth b. Sept. 1776; m. Elias Samson, 29 May 1795. 

Josiah b. 16 Feb. 1780; m. Nancy Bowers; d. s. p. 8 Feb. 
1859. Wife d. 18 March 1859, aged 75 years, 9 months. 

Keziah b. 8 Nov. 1785 ; m. and soon disap- 
peared. 

"Senath," or Sinah, b. 7 Jan. 1788; m. Joseph Dean, 9 Feb. 
1812. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 3I 

Enoch Macomber (John 4 , John 3 John 2 , John 1 ), born in Mid- 
dleborough, Mass., married, 22 Oct. 1795, Tabitha Raymond. 
Children recorded in Middleborough: 

Stetson Raymond b. 31 March 1796. 

Joanna b. 10 Feb. 1798. 

Enoch b. 18 June 1799. 

Zalmura Parker (a son) b. 12 July 1801. 

37 
Elijah Macomber (James 4 , John 3 , John 3 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton 25 January 1750-51, married, 20 June 1775, Zilpah 
Thrasher. She was daughter of Jacob Briggs, as a deed shows. 
Elijah Macomber of Berkley and Martha Pratt of Middleborough 
were published in Middleborough 16 Dec. 1812. This may have 
been a second marriage. 

68. Spencer b. 1776; m. Susanna Briggs 1 March 1798. 
Silence b. >»" v/9 * ?ffi 6 *tig^ Parsons and lived in N. Y. £ ; 

69. James b. ; m. Betsey Staples, 20 Nov. 1805. 

Abiah b. ; m. 1 Dec. 1796, Joseph Burt of Berkley. 

38 
Venus Macomber (James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Taunton, 12 Jan. 1775, married, 25 June 1797, Wealthy Pierce, 
dau. of Elisha and Elizabeth (Kane), and lived in Berkley, Mass. 
He died 8 March 1859. She was born 20 April 1778, and died n 
May 1859. 

Apollos b. 

Achsah b. ; m. 31 Dec. 1821, Capt. Nathaniel 

Townsend. 

Sophronia b. ; m. 7 Sept. 1828, Benj. Pettey of 

Taunton. 

69. a. Cyrus b. ; m. 27 Nov. 1833, Phebe Kempton. 

Polly b. ; m. Hiram Lewis of Swansea. 

Eleanor b. ; m. 5 Mch. 1843, Alfred Case of 

Rehoboth. 



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3 2 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

39 

Joseph Macomber (Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Middleborough, Mass., 8 Sept. 1762, married Alethea, dau. of 
Josiah and Theodora (Godfrey) Robinson. Published in Mid- 
dleborough 23 Oct. 1792. She was born about 1768 and died in 
1836. He was a private in the Revolutionary Army and subse- 
quently Lieut, in the militia. He died 3 July 1800. Lived on 
the homestead in Middleborough, now Lakeville. 

70. Joseph b. 14 Aug. 1793; m. Lois Sherman, (2) Beulah 
Thomas. 

Josiah Robinson b. 20 Feb. 1795 ; d. in S. Carolina before 
1822. 

71. Elizabeth b. 22 Aug. 1797; m. Alden Clark, 2 Nov. 1817. 

40 

Elijah Macomber (Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Middleborough, Mass., 14 Oct. 1770, settled in Durham, Maine, 
in 1801. He was Lieut, in the militia, constable, and five times 
selectman. He lived on the River Road about a mile north of 
South West Bend. He married, at Windham, Maine, 6 June 
1802, Eliza, daughter of Dr. Stephen and Sarah (Adams) Swett, 
who was born in Gorham, Maine, 28 Sept. 1783, and died in Dur- 
ham, Me., 26 April 1853. He died 26 Sept. 1849. They are 
buried in a cemetery between South West Bend and Methodist 
Corner, Durham, Me. Children : 

72. Stephen b. 26 May 1803; m. Sarah B. Francis, 9 Nov. 
1825. 

73. Julia Ann b. 26 Feb. 1805 \ m - Joseph Curtis, 30 May 
1822. 

Joseph b. 6 Nov. 1806; m. 20 Oct. 1853, Mrs. Mary 
(Miller) McArthur; d. s. p. in Whitman, Mass., 25 June 1889. 

74. Adams b. 26 July 1808 ; m. Betsey Briggs, 10 Dec. 1832. 

75. Eliza Swett b. 9 April 1810; m. Samuel O. Stackpole, 8 
Nov. 1838. 

76. Washington b. 10 Sept. 1812; m. Abigail Davis, 19 Sept. 

1839- 

77. Horatio N. b. 22 June 1814; m. Mary Wingate, (2) L. 
Maria Pratt, (3) Mrs. Elizabeth (Lambert) Henderson. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 33 

78. Leonard b. 30 May 1816; m. four times. 

John b. 1 March 1819; m. 31 May 1846 Caroline Wes- 
ton, (2) 22 Sept. 1875 Mrs. Mary F. Tufts; d. s. p. 26 Nov. 1883 
in Lynn, Mass. 

4i 

Lt. John Macomber (Samuel 4 , Samiael 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), bap- 
tized in Berkley, Mass., 5 July 1752, m. 10 April 1777, Olive 
Shepardson of Attleboro, Mass. He died in Rehoboth, Mass., 10 
May 1821, in his 69th year. She died 15 April 1816, in her 61 st 
year. Children : 

Sarah b. 17 Aug. 1779; m. Benjamin Ingalls 4 May 1809. 

Nancy b. 11 Feb. 1781 ; m. 21 April 1808, Oliver C. Peck. She 
d. 1 July 1862. 

78. a. John b. 12 Aug. 1786; m. 6 Dec. 1812, Sarah Smith. 
Araunah Shepardson b. 4 June 1789; m. 24 Sept. 1812, 

Rebecca (or Achsah) Simmons. 

42 

Lemuel Macomber (Samuel 4 , Samuel 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in 
Berkley, Mass., 15 April 1754, married, 24 April 1777, Tabitha 
Capron of Attleboro, Mass. His tombstone says that he died 2.J 
Nov. 1843, a g e d 89. His wife died 31 Oct. 1825, aged 68. I 
have record of only one son : 

79. Lemuel b. 30 Aug. 1780; m. Hannah Burr, 29 Dec. 1805. 



SIXTH GENERATION 

43 
Charles Macomber (Jonathan 5 , Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 30 June, 1784; married in 
Taunton Fannie Godfrey, who was born in Taunton in 1785 and 
died at Conway, Mass., 4 Oct. 1862. He died in Conway 14 
Nov. 1844. Children: 

80. Charles b. 24 April 1808; m. Eusebia N. Flagg, (2) 
Martha Graves. 

Sarah Ann b. 1810; died young. 
Lydia b. 1812; died young. 

Rhoda Godfrey b. 22 Oct. 1813; m. 12 April 1838, Sam- 
uel Flagg; d. 12 July 1900. Six ch. 



34 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sarah b. 1815; m. 1838, Reuel Pease of Ashfield; d. 10 
Nov. 1898. 

Sophia b. 1816; m. Lorin Graves of Leverett ; d. in 
Springfield. 

Joseph b. 1818; d. at age of 4 months. 

Nancy b. 1820; m. 3 June 1840, Jeremiah W. Hobart; d. 
24 July 185 1. 

Fannie Maria b. 1819; m. Dwight Boyden, 1846; d. 29 
Oct. 1850. 

Rebekah b. 1824; d. 1832. 

Joshua b. 1826; d. 1840. 

Harriet b. 1828 ; m. 30 March 1853, Jeremiah W. Hobart. 
5 ch. 

Mary Ann b. 12 Oct. 1829; m. Consider Field. 4 ch. 

44 

Jonathan Macomber (Jonathan 5 , Stephen 4 Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 22 Aug. 1782, married (1) Lydia Bacon, 
who was born in Conway, Mass., 16 Oct. 1797 and died there 8 
May 1834. He married (2) 29 June 1835, Mrs. Achsah (Wins- 
low) Thatcher, daughter of Barnabas and Lydia. She was born 
16 May 1804, and died 12 July 1861. He died at Shelburne Falls, 
Mass., 3 Oct. 1839, and was buried in Conway. Ten children 
by first marriage, and one child by second : 

Bernard b. 26 Oct. 1813; d. about 1844 at Lynchburg, 
Va. 

81. Alpheus b. 30 July 1815; m. Ophelia Pomeroy. 

Julia b. 14 Jan. 1817; d. 13 Dec. 1846 in Boston. 

George, died in infancy. 

Lydia b. 30 Feb. 1819; m. Henry Hutchings of Boston; 
d. 27 Jan. 1897 in Boston. One ch. 

Eunice b. 16 Nov. 1822; m. Joseph Wilbur of Boston; d. 
May 1844. 

Anna M. b. 8 Dec. 1824; m. 15 April 1857 Walter W. 
Stone of Boston, b. at Westfield, Vt, 10 April 1812, d. at Burr 
Oak, Mich., 28 Aug. 1898. She lives ( 1904) at Burr Oak, Mich. 

Luena b. 9 Jan. 1827; m. (1) Rev. Anson Tucker, (2) 
1866, James H. Reed. See Stackpole Genealogy, p. 99. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 35 

Jonathan b. 26 May 1829 ; killed in the battle of Gettys- 
burg, 3 July 1863. 

Dorothy b. March 1834; d. Nov. 1834. 
Child by second marriage : 

Achsah b. 2 March 1836; m. 25 Sept. 1856, Jarvis Pierce 
of Savoy, Mass. Lives at Park, Kansas. Three ch. 

45 
Philip Macomber (Stephen, Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 5 Aug. 1779; married, 16 Jan. 1806, 
Mehitable Hood, who was born 7 April 1777, and died 29 Jan. 
1842. He lived in Taunton and died there 18 May 1843. House 
joiner by trade. 

82. Philip Augustus b. 8 Nov. 1806; m. Sarah C. Padelford. 

83. Joseph Leonard b. 29 July 1808; m. Dordana Godfrey. 

84. William Frederick b. 1 July 1810; m. Susan P. Staples. 
Clarinda b. 1 Nov. 1812; d. 22 Jan. 1876. Unm. 
Mary Ann b. 30 Nov. 1815; d. 22 Oct. 1821. 

46 

Asa Allen Macomber (Nathan 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 3 July 1790, married, 6 Feb. 1820, Han- 
nah A., daughter Samuel K. White of Middleborough. He died 
in Taunton 19 Sept. 1865. She died 9 June 1865, aged 64 years. 
Children : 

Mary W. b. 1821 ; m. 21 June (or July) 1840, Lewis S. 
Thompson of Halifax. He died in the Civil War, 24 Dec. 1864. 
She d. in Middleborough 5 Sept. 1894. Eleven ch. 

Lydia b. 24 Sept. 1822; m. 24 Nov. 1854, Charles W. 
Padelford. 

85. Samuel W. b. 31 May 1826; m. Eliza Green, (2) Sarah 
Benton. 

Nathan b. 15 Oct. 1824; d. 22 Jan. 1824. 
Charles, died 3 March 1857, aged 25 years. 

47 
Ebenezer Macomber (Rufus 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton 10 Jan. 1797; married, 16 Nov. 1824, Louisa 



3^ MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Burt. She was born 24 Oct. 1802 and died 22 June 1867. He 
died 18 Oct. 1873 in Taunton. Children: 

Abigail b. 3 June 1825 ; m. 10 April 1870, Thomas D. 
Chaffee. 

Bathsheba b. 3 Dec. 1826; m. 25 March 1857, Thomas 
L. Goff. 

86. Ebenezer b. 1 June 1828 ; m. Waite H. Spooner. 

Mary Ann b. 29 Aug. 1830; m. James Wade, 8 March 
i853- 

Edward b. 30 Nov. 1835; m - 22 Jan. 1859, Hannah S. 
Da vol, aged 17, dau. of John and Meribah Davol of Westport. 

Emeline C. b. 4 Feb. 1837; m. 1 May 1859, Marshall 
Briggs; d. 30 Nov. 1866. 

48 

Rufus Macomber (Rufus s , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton 23 May 1801, married Ruby, daughter of Water- 
man and Zilpha (Potter) Green of Seekonk. She was born 1 
Dec. 1822 and died 1 Feb. 1882. He died in Taunton 22 Jan. 
1886. 

George Waterman b. 26 Aug. 1843 ; m. 15 Feb. 1879, Mary T., 
dau. of Joseph W. and Zillah (Borden) Pierce, b. 26 April, 1854. 
Two daughters, Emma Florence and Lena Borden. 

Eliza Ann b. 1846 ; m. 16 Jan. 1867, Jeremiah W. Pres- 

brey. 

Edward Wellington, d. unm. 21 Oct. 1894, aged 44-3-4. 
Ruby Isabel, d. unm. 21 Aug. 1891, aged 35-7-26. 

49 

John Hathaway Macomber (Rufus 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton Nov. 1806, married, 30 Oct. 1836, Pru- 
dence Amelia Pierce of East Taunton. He died 17 Dec. 1875, 
in Berkley. Children : 

John Hathaway (called also Albert E.) b. 10 Sept. 1837. 
Toledo, O. 

Julia b. about 1840; m. in Boston 2 Feb. 1859, Abner B. Cole. 
Went West with mother and brother. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 37 

Daniel Macomber (Rufus 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass., 17 Oct. 1809; married, 13 June, 1836, 
Mary, dau. of Capt. Malachi and Keturah (Howland) Howland 
of Freetown, Mass. She was born 22 Oct. 1815, and died 18 
July 1890. He lived in Freetown and died 23 Oct. 1895. 

Phebe H. b. 27 April 1837; m. 27 Dec. 1864, Wm. Fisher of 
New Bedford. 

Eliza E. b. 8 Oct. 1839; m. 29 Oct. 1863, William H. Dean. 

Malinda W. b. 3 May 1841 ; m. 9 Aug. 1883, James A. Man- 
chester of Portsmouth, R. I., his second wife. 

Mary E. b. 17 Jan. 1843. 

Roxana S. b. 13 Dec. 1844; m. 28 July 1868, Charles H. Read. 

Twin daus. b. 24 Feb.; d. 31 March 1848. 

Harriet L. b. 28 Dec. 1850; m. 22 June 1871, Abraham T. 
Haskell. 

Daniel Lewis b. 28 Dec. 1850; d. 18 July 1863. 

Arabella F. b. 24 Nov. 1854; m. 7 Apr. 1881, Wm. M. Dicker 
of Newton. 

Charles H. b. 30 June 1858. 

5i 
Calvin Dean Macomber (John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born at Taunton, Mass., 7 June 1786, married in Dorches- 
ter, Mass., 6 Aug. 1814, Bethiah A. Carver, born in Barnstable, 
Mass. He died 3 Oct. 1829, in Oakham, Mass. 

87. Calvin D. b. — May 1817; m. 4 Apr. 1837, Mary L. 
Haskins. 

88. William H. b. 2 Dec. 1818; m. 25 Nov. 1843, Mary E. 
Burgess. 

Julia b. ; m. Maker. 

52 

John J. Macomber (John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 John 1 ), 
born in Oakham, Mass., 11 Nov. 1786, married 17 Jan. 
1828, Abigail F. Packard, dau. of Jonathan and Susanna (Craw- 
ford) of Oakham. Lived in Oakham, where he died 13 Feb. 1878. 



38 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

His wife died 6 Nov. 1884, aged 72 yrs. 7 mos. Children as 
recorded in Oakham and Boston : 

89. Gardner H. b. 28 Oct. 1828; m. 10 Apr. 1851, Henrietta 
Woodis. 

Luther R. b. 22 Aug. 1833; m. Kaw Ho Waharo, a 
native of Hawaii. 

90. John b. 31 May 1834; m. 24 Sept. 1856, Harriet Doane. 
Edwin b. 20 Oct. 1836; d. 6 Sept. 1863. Yale College, 

A.B., 1863. 

George b. 20 Dec. 1838; Amherst College, 1862; Lt., 
Capt. and Major in the Army; m. in Washington, D. C, 28 June 
1866, Kate, dau. of Col. Godwin of Fairfax, Va. ; killed by an 
accident at Fort Bowie, Arizona, 18 Sept. 1869. 

Abby, b. 14 June 1841 ; m. William E. Barr. 

James Packard b. 26 Aug. 1843 5 d. m Hospital at New- 
burn, N. C, 17 Jan. 1863, a soldier in Co. F, 54th Regt. M. V. M. 

Henry I. died 18 Aug. 1870, aged 24 yrs., 8 mos. Soldier 
in the Civil War, Co. E, 66th Regt. M. V. M. 

William H. b. 1847; m - 9 O ct - J 873, Clara J. 

Parker, aged 23, dau. of Jonathan and Clarissa, of Paxton, Mass. 
Soldier in the Civil War A son, Arthur Mayne, b. at Oakham, 
27 Sept. 1874, m. 9 Nov. 1896, Lulu Hendrick, aged 20, dau. of 
Morris and Ellen L. (Taylor). 

Charles J. b. 29 Oct. 1849; m - 3 1 May 1873, Abbie L. 
Brigham of Marlboro, Mass., dau. of Curtis and Mary A. 
(Stevens). 

Frank Pierce b. 16 Jan. 1852 ; m. 1 Jan. 1874, Fannie N. 
Greenwood, dau. of H. C. and Emeline, of Grafton, Mass. Dau. 
Grace b. 19 Sept. 1874, and Ruth B. b. about 1877; m. 3 Aug. 
1898 Harold Dean Waterman, at Shrewsbury, Mass. 

Calvin D. b. about 1854; m. 13 Aug. 1885, Mrs. Ella 
(Forshay) Macomber, widow of his brother John A. A dau. 
Bertha Maria, d. in N. Brookfield, Mass., 5 Dec. 1890, aged 3-4-1. 

Jesse F. b. 13 March 1857; d. 23 July 1858. 

53 
Luther Macomber (John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 John 1 ), 
born in Oakham, Mass., 13 Dec. 1808; married, 11 April 1833, 
Eliza, dau. of Samuel and Huldah (Berden) Crawford. She was 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 39 

born i May 1808, and died 27 Feb. 1886. He was a cabinet maker 
and lived thirty years in Newark, N. J., where he died 12 Jan. 
1901, aged 92 years. 

Annie E. b. 31 Jan. 1834; m. 10 July 1889, William Eddy, 
(2) 23 Feb. 1904, Humphrey Russell. 

Samuel C. b. 4 May 1837; m. 6 Aug. 1859, Mary Ann 
Tracy. Children, Charles and Ellen, who m. 6 June 1895, George 
Clatton, and lives at 20 Belleville Ave., Newark, N. J. 

Julia A. b. 11 Aug. 1839; m. 28 Oct. 1868, Nathan N. 
Vosler. Lives at 197 High Street, Newark, N. J. 

Mary A. b. 23 Apr. 1841 ; m. 12 Sept. 1866, Wm. J. Mad- 
ison. 

Charlotte A. b. 19 June 1843; m - I2 Dec. 1874, Edwin 
M. Dunn ; d. 19 Aug. 1903. 

Huldah J. b. 1 Feb. 1845 5 d. *6 Sept. 1846. 

53 a. 

James Macomber (Thomas 5 , James 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) 
boin 18 June 1804, married Clarissa Andreas, who was born 27 
April, 181 5 ; and died 4 Jan. 1899. He lived in Chenango Co., 
N. Y. He'died 9 Oct. 1881. 

Ellen b. 4 April 1833 ; m. Joseph Elliott ; d. s. p. 20 Nov. 1849. 

J. Frank b. 19 July 1835 ; m. Mary E. Lee. Lives in Sarcoxie, 
Mo. 4 ch., Frank W. ; Arthur; Ella m. F. H. Farrar; Nancy 
S. m. A. K. Nail. 

Amanda b. 30 Sept. 1838; m. Major N. A. Adams; d. 29 July 
1895, at Manhattan, Kansas. He d. 3 May 1895. 

53 b. 

Thomas W. Macomber (Thomas 5 , James 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born 6 Feb. 1807, married, 1832, Hannah Elliott and died, 
1890, in Chenango Co., N. Y. 

Melvin A. b. 1836; m. Emily Gilmore. Res., Greene, Che- 
nango Co., N. Y. Several children are deceased A dau. Ida m. 
Thomas Terry. 

Eugene L. b. 1843 5 m - Charlotte Adams. Res., Port Dickin- 
son, N. Y. Ch., Henry M. m. Harriet Myers; Theo. M. ; Fred 
E. deceased ; Walter J. ; and Grace E. 

Julian b. 185 1 ; d. i860. 

Elsie m. D. Elliott. 

Jennett m. M. Freeman. 



40 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

54 

Seth Macomber (Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Middleborough, Mass., 7 Feb. 1762, married there, 17 Sept. 
1784, Katherine Pratt, and settled in Paris, Maine. After his 
death she married Deacon William Barrows. Seth Macomber 
had the following children : 

91. Daniel b. about 1785 ; m. Mary Bowker, 22 Nov. 1807. 
Katherine b. 11 July 1788; m. 9 March 1817, Francis 

Clark, b. in Hanover, Mass., 1 March 1780. Lived in Portland, 
Me. 8 ch. 

92. Samuel b. 1790; m. Rebecca P. Coombs, (2) Mrs. 
Martha Carter. 

Job. b. . Said to have gone South. 

Isaac, lost when a boy. See hist, of Paris, Me., p. 665. 

55 
Southworth Macomber (Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Midleborough, Mass., 6 April 1764, married (1) 
4 March 1793, Mehitable dau. of Gen. Sedgeley, (2) Hannah, 
dau. of Capt. William and Mehitable (Hall) Williams of Litch- 
field, Me. She was born in Bath, Me., 13 Oct. 1780, and died in 
Bowdoinham, Me., 10 Nov. 1857. In the Revolution he served 
from 25 July 1779, to 25 April 1780, in the 7th company of Col. 
Mitchell's Regt. Statue 5 ft. 7 inches. Complexion light. Eyes 
blue. He died 26 Sept. 1859, in Bowdoinham, Me. Somebody 
says that he had four children by first marriage and nine by the 
second, of whom the following are known. 

Eliza pub. to Joseph Young at Pittston, Me., 20 Jan. 
1810. 

Sarah H. b. 1800; d. 24 March 1869, aged 69 years. 

Robert, sailmaker, married and lived in Wilmington, N. 
C. Had ch. 

93. Nathaniel Hall b. 24 Jan. 1808; m. Irena Williams, 
(2) Judith P. Bloomer. 

94. William C. b. 3 Jan. 1819; m. Julia Ann Wheeler. 
Norman P. died 27 June 1830, aged 18 years. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 41 

56 

Ebenezer Macomber (Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Middleborough, Mass., 6 March 1766, married, 28 Sept. 
1788, Abigail, daughter of John and Eleanor (Brown) Robinson, 
born in Georgetown, Me. He lived in Bowdoinham, Me. He 
died in Bangor, Me., 4 Jan. 1848. She died 4 March 1845, a g e d 
73 years. He was a soldier in the Revolution. 

Phebe b. 15 Jan. 1791 ; m. 10 Jan. 1813, Munson G. Cur- 
tis of Bath. 

Eleanor Brown b. 15 March 1793; m. 1 Oct. 1816, John 
Dresser; d. 8 Feb. 1870. Seven ch. 

Sally b. 20 Oct. 1794; d. 20 July 1869. 

Rachel Robinson b. 12 Sept. 1796; m. 6 Oct. 1820, Luke 
Shaw of Bath, Me. ; d. 18 Sept. 1866. 

Lyeha T. b. 7 (or 17) Aug. 1798; m. Ephraim Luce. They 
joined the Mormons, went to Salt Lake City and were never heard 
from. 

Jane Robinson b. 7 April 1800; m. 15 Aug. 1827, Joshua 
Paul; d. 19 March 1874. 

95. James Robinson b. 15 April 1802; m. Myra G. Lawrence, 
(2) Mercy Perkins. 

96. Uriel Huntington b. 24 Jan. 1804; m. 22 Oct. 1827, 
Mercy Wardwell. 

Laban Loring b. 28 Dec. 1806; m. 9 Dec. 1833, Olive, 
dau. of Daniel and Jerusha Clay ; d. 16 Oct. 1839, at Woodbine, 
111. One son, d. in infancy. Widow b. 10 Oct. 1810, m. (2) Nathan 
B. Norton and d. 23 Aug. 1886. 

Harriet Porter b. 8 March 1808; m. 23 Nov. 1826, 
Nathan Lewis. 

Caroline North b. 12 Jan. 1810; m. 26 Sept. 1835, 
Franklin Muzzy. 

Otis Thwing b. 18 Feb. 1812; m. 8 Aug. 1843, Deborah 
R. Alexander; d. 16 March 1881. She b. 25 May 1808; d. Feb. 
1884. 3 ch. d. young. 

Silas Stearns b. 28 May 1814; d. 26 Sept. 1826. 

57 
James Macomber (Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 

born in Bowdoinham, Me., in 1782; married, 27 Ang. 1805, Mary, 

dau. of Samuel and Jeannette (Miller) Marson of Pittston, Me. 



42 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

There is a tradition that he was a soldier in the War of 1812 and 
died in Saco, Me., at the age of 28 years. Children born in Bow- 
doinham, Me. : 

Abner Pitts b. 9 June 1806. He d. in Hallowell, 20 Feb. 
1893, aged 86-8-1 1 ; m. 4 Sept. 1834, Caroline, dau. of Capt. Gid- 
eon and Sarah (Marson) Colcord. Builder and contractor in Hal- 
lowell, Me. Ch. Caroline Augusta and Maria Louise b. about 
1846, who m. 22 April, 1884, Clarence P. Weston, and lives in 
Boston, Mass. 

Joseph, died when a young man, unm. 

James, m. and d. s. p. in Union, Me. 

97. Gideon Colcord b. 14 Jan. 1810; m. Jane Watt. 

Sophronia ; m. White. 

58 

Joseph Macomber (perhaps son of Job 5 , Nathaniel*, John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ) is said to have been born about 1793, whereas the 
Joseph Macomber of Bowdoinham is said to have been born in 
1786, but there is no certainty in either date. This Joseph lived 
for a short time in Starks, Me. He married, 1817, Rachel, dau. 
of Langdon and Mary (Griffin) Littlehale, who was born in 
Tyngsboro, Mass., in 1796. He is said to have died in Pelham, 
N. H., March 1821, aged 28. His widow married Samuel Kid- 
der of Chelmsford, Mass. She died 2 Nov. 1835. 

Mary J. m. William Wilson and moved to Ohio. 

Susan, died in infancy. 

Joseph W. b. April 1818, in Starks, Me.; m. 11 May 1848, 
Eliza J. Taylor, widow of Samuel Taylor of Nashua, N. H., and 
dau. of Jonathan S. Kelso of New Boston, N. H. He d. at 
Worcester, Mass., 29 April 1889. She died at Worcester, 8 Nov. 
1889, aged 65-8-18. Five ch., Mary L. b. 26 July 1849; m. 
Joseph W. West of Harrisville, N. H. She d. in 1902, leaving 
ch., Harry J. West of Hyde Park, Mass., and William A. West of 
Worcester, Mass. William W. b. 19 June 1859; m. 25 Oct. 1881, 
Minnie B., dau. of Jonathan C. and Ann French of Worcester. 
Has a son, Joseph C. Arthur W. b. 20 Aug. 1863; m. Alice 
Fisher and lives in Worcester, Mass. Helen S. b. 23 Dec. 1864; 
m. 13 June 1881, William E. May. Fannie R. b. 14 Feb. 1867; 
m. 15 Oct. 1 89 1, Frank E. Elwell of Rockport, Mass. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 43 

59 

Ezra Macomber (George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass., 18 July 1769, married, 27 Dec. 1792, 
Wealthy, dau. of Josiah and Wealthy (Hodges) Hodges. She, 
born 16 Oct. 1766, died 7 Oct. 1856 in Windsor, Mass. He died 
28 Oct. 1835. Lived at Savoy, Mass. Children born at Norton, 
except the second. 

Wealthy b. 16 Jan. 1794; m. 5 June 1816, Caleb Ephraim 

Perry of Attleboro, Mass. ; d. 17 April 1885, at N. Royalton, Ohio. 

Josiah b. at Shutesbury, Mass., 31 Oct. 1796; m. 19 Sept. 1820, 
at Taunton, Phebe, dau. of Othniel and Rebecca (Wilbur) Tripp 
of Dighton, Mass. He d. 8 Dec. 1849 at Perry, Mich. 

Mary b. 22 March 1793; m. 31 Dec. 1818 Washburn Braman 
of Norton, Mass. ; d. 22 Nov. 1857. 

Melinda b. 21 Nov. 1799; d. 20 March 1814. 

Ezra b. 3 Feb. 1802; m. — Nov. 1827, Jedidah Fuller, dau. 
of Josiah and Louisa (Sears) Fuller of Ashfield, Mass. He d. 
21 April 1884, at Caro, Mich. 

Susannah Williams b. 12 Dec. 1803; m - 2 Nov. 1826 Wil- 
liam Walker of Savoy, Mass. She d. 11 March 1845, at Web- 
ster, Mich. 

Celia b. 30 Jan. 1806; d. 20 Jan. 1829. 

Lurana b. 22 June 1808; m. 11 Oct. 1832, Levi Lyman Leon- 
ard of Savoy, Mass. She d. 29 Jan. 1887 at Cheshire, Mass. 

60 

John Macomber (George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton, 18 July 1769, married in Shutesbury, Mass., 1 
Nov. 1795, Silence, daughter of Ebenezer and Silence (Macom- 
ber) Briggs, born 7 April 1779. He removed to Eaton, N. Y., 
and thence to Pa. She died in McKean Co., Pa. The first four 
children are recorded in Shutesbury. 

Jemima b. 26 April 1797; m. prob. Abijah Carpenter; d. 10 
July 1841, in Fillmore, N. Y. 

Axala b. 16 March 1799. 

John b. 20 June 1801. 

Redding b. 11 Dec. 1804, living in 1858. 

Austin. 

Harris B., living in 1858. 

Sophia. 



44 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

6l 

George Macomber (George 5 , Nathaniel*, John 8 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Taunton 17 Sept. 1772, married, 17 Sept. 1801, Anne 
Harkness, who was born 24 Oct. 1782, daughter of David and 
Sarah Harkness of Pelham, Mass. She died at Amherst, Mass., 15 
Nov. 1858, at the age of 76 years, 22 days. He died in Pelham 
31 Jan. 1830. Children: 

Sarah Blair b. 15 Sept. 1802; m. Thayer. 

Betsey Barker b. 25 May 1805 ; d. at Amherst, Mass., 12 
Aug. i860. Unm. 

98. George Washington b. 26 Sept. 1807; m - Sarah P. Rip- 
ley, (2) Hannah L. Kallock. 

99. William Harkness b. 1 1 July 1809 ; m. Lucy Ann Welsh. 
Esther Hodges b. 18 May 181 1 ; d. 17 Nov. 1828. 
David William b. 28 Jan. 181 3 ; d. 10 July 1829. 

62 

Paul Macomber (George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John'-, John 1 ), 
born in Taunton 18 June 1775, married, 2 Oct. 1802, his cousin, 
Priscilla, daughter of Nathaniel and Bathsheba (Godfrey) 
Macomber of Middleborough, Mass. She was born 18 Feb. 1778 
and died 21 Dec. 1865. He was a deacon in the church at 
Shutesbury, Mass., where he lived. His death was caused by a 
fall from a load of hay, 26 July 1850. Children : 

Bathsheba Godfrey b. 15 Aug. 1806; d. 2 Nov. 1826. Unm. 

Sarah G. b. 22 Aug. 1808; m. 22 June 1865, R. Baxter How- 
ard and lived in Prescott, Mass. She d. s. p. 6 March 1878. 

Williams Paul b. — Oct. 1809 ; d. at age of 24 in Canton, Ct. 

Nathaniel, died at age of 2 years 6 months. 

Philena G. b. 4 Nov. 1816; m. 14 March 1854, Henry H. Ben- 
jamin, his third wife. He d. 29 April 1888, aged 80 years, 2 
months 4 days. Farmer and stone mason in Shutesbury, Mass. 

Nathaniel D. b. — March, 1818; m. 30 Oct. 1851, Tamason 
M. Leach, dau. of Gardner and Susannah (Macomber) Leach. 
He d. 15 Sept. 1898. She d. 13 Dec. 1878, aged 71 years, 7 
months. Lived in Shutesbury, Mass. 

63 

Ebenezer Macomber (George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Norton, Mass., 12 May 1785, married Sally Ann, 
dau. of James Jewell, born in Woodstock, Conn. They were 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 45 

married 12 Dec. 1810, at Sturbridge, Mass. She was born 22 
May 1787, and died 26 Oct. 1873. He lived in New Salem, 
Mass., and died there 24 Sept. 1849. 

Joshua Mason b. 11 Oct. 181 1 ; m. 27 Nov. 1833, Sarah 
A. Lee of Chester, Vt., dau. of Charles and Sally (Hobart), A.B., 
Brown University, 1835. Taught ten years at Shelburne Falls 
Academy and also at Uxbridge, Mass. Five years professor of 
chemistry in the Philadelphia College of Medicine. Had one son, 
who died in early manhood. He died 9 Feb. 1881. Widow d. in 
Uxbridge, Mass., 16 Dec. 1898, aged 89-8-9. 

100. Kingsley Williams b. 14 March 1813; m. Martha S. 
Alexander. 

101. Squier James b. 14 Dec. 1815; m. Thankful Haskins. 
Ebenezer Paul b. 18 June 1818; d. s. p. 1 Jan. 1866. 

102. George Southard b. 18 Oct. 1819; m. Fanny Stewart. 
Zenas Leonard b. 18 June 1821 ; d. 29 Feb. i860, s. p. 
Rebecca Russell b. 3 May 1823; m. 15 June 1848, 

David Hubbard of Sunderland, Mass. ; d. 18 Dec. 1853. 

Addison Parker b. 19 May 1831 ; m. 24 June 1853, in 
Petersham, Mass., Martha W., dau. of Zuri and Hephsibeth 
(Briggs) Williams. She d. at Petersham 19 June 1890, aged 61 
years 9 months. He is a physician and lives at Atlantic, Iowa. 
One son, Ernest Parker, b. 23 Sept. 1854, d. in infancy. 

64 
Ichabod Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Middleborough, Mass., 25 Jan. 1776, married, 25 
Jan. 1805, Alethea Derby Sumner, dau. of David and Ruth of Mil- 
ton, Mass. She, born 18 Feb. 1783, died in Bedford, Mass., 14 
April 1869. They lived at a place called New Plains, in Dedham, 
Mass. Children as shown by wills and deeds at Dedham. 

Edwin H. b. — Dec. 1805 ; m. Sarah Ann Page, dau. of 
Samuel, of Haverhill ; d. 2 March 1873, at Hyde Park, Mass., 
prob. s. p. She d. at Hyde Park, 8 Oct. 1896, aged 89-4-21. 

Emliy b. ; m. 30 Aug. 1835, Moses L. Hobart, Jr., 

of Dedham. 

103. Amos b. 10 Sept. 1812; m. 6 Nov. 1842, Sarah McGooch. 
Avis b. 181 5 ; m. 26 Aug. 1847, James Burgess of 

Dedham. Both living at Belford, Mass., in 1870. 
103. a. George b. ; m. Joanna W. Cushing. 



46 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

103. b. Nelson b. 1828; m. Mary Ann Gardner, 8 Jan. 

1852. 

Warren b. ; m. Sarah . Was of Warren, 

Champaign Co., 111., in 1870. 

65 
Ard Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Middleborough, Mass., 25 Feb. 1780, married Wealthy, 
dau. of Elijah and Wealthy (Harvey) Eddy of Norton, Mass., 1 
June 1807. He settled in Monmouth, Me., where he was a farmer 
and tanner. He died 28 Dec. 1850. His wife born 29 Sept. 1787, 
died 19 Oct. 1864. Children. : 

Elijah b. 15 Dec. 1807; d. Aug. 1877. 

104. Leander b. 2 May 1810; m. 3 Feb. 1847, Lucinda 
Hamilton. 

105. William A. b. 9 May 1813 ; m. Sarah P. Ballard. 

Angeline b. 13 June 1817; m. (1) Lewis D. King, (2) 
Joseph Allen, (3) Thomas Poole of Sangerville, Me. 

Francis H. b. 26 July 1819; m. Philura Fish; d. 23 June 
1900. One ch. 

Octavia b. 18 March 1825 ; d. 28 March 1899. Unm. 

Ardelia b. 3 Feb. 1828, and d. 7 Aug. 1848. 

66 

Nathaniel Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Middleborough, Mass., 31 Jan. 1787; married, 28 
Aug. 1820, Mary S. Weston. He died in Lakeville, 31 Dec. 1855. 
Children recorded in Middleborough: 

Job Godfrey b. 16 Oct. 1820; d. 5 Jan. 1858, in hospital at 
Taunton, Mass. Unm. 

Louisa Ann b. 13 May 1823. 

Sarah Watson b. 7 April 1827; m. 25 June 1853, Joseph 
Nason in Boston. 

67 

Leonard Macomber (Ichabod 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 

John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., in 1782, married, 12 March 1807, 

in New Bedford, Susanna, dau. of Sylvester and Phebe (Greene) 

Greene. He was a merchant in New Bedford and later removed 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 47 

to Roxbury, Mass., where he died 20 March i860. His wife 
born in Greenwood, R. I., died in Boston 16 April 1879, aged 89 
years. 

105 a. George b. April 1808; m. Martha D. Gibbs. 

Phebe b. 1810 ; d. 2 Aug. 1840. 

Charles b. 1814; d. 20 March 1879, aged 64. 

Mary J. b. about 1817; m. 27 Feb. 1866, Joshua Lin- 
coln, at Roxbury. 

Francis L. b. ; m. Mary C. Meredeth. She d. 

21 July 1870. Two ch., Fannie b. 15 June 1859, m. 1 June, 1893, 
Josiah E. Tappan; and Frank M. 

Ann b. 1820; d. 1838. 

Emily b. . Unm. 

Susan b. . Unm. 

68 

Spencer Macomber (Elijah 5 , James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Berkley, Mass., in 1776, married, 1 March 1798, Susanna 
Briggs, dau. of Gideon and Keturah of Middleborough, born 17 
Dec. 1775. He died 12 July 1800, in the 25th year of his age. 
Two children : 

Spencer A. prob. lived in Vermont. 

James m. Nancy McArthur of Fairhaven. Vt. ? 

69 

James Macomber (Elijah 5 , James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Berkley, Mass., married, 20 Nov. 1805, Betsey Staples of 
Taunton. 

106. Francis b. 3 April 1806; m. Mary Hathaway. 

107. Enoch b. 24 Aug. 1807; m. Matilda Norcut, 12 Jan. 
1832. 

James b. 24 April 1809; d. 21 Jan. 1849. Unm. 

108. Spencer b. 14 March 181 1; m. Lydia Borden, 15 Oct. 

1835- 

109. Nathaniel b. 23 Oct. 1812; m. Julia Briggs, 15 Oct. 

1844. 

no. Zaccheus b. 23 May 1814; m. Almyra G. Parish. 

in. William C. b. 20 June 1816; m. Sarah A. Briggs, 30 
Nov. 1837. 



48 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Melancy b. 10 April 1818; m. Theodore Paul, (2) 
James Plumb, 6 May 1849. O ne cn -> Thomas W. Paul. 

112. Elias b. 31 May 1820; m. 1845, Thankful Norcut, (2) 
Cordelia M. Hall. 

Lucinda b. 12 April 1822; d. at age of 1 year 6 months. 

Elijah b. 26 May 1825. Drowned near coast of North 
Carolina. Unm. 

69 a. 

Cyrus Macomber (Venus 5 , James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 
in Berkley, Mass. Married, 27 Nov. 1833, Phebe Kempton of 
New Bedford. Divorced Nov. 1846. She had care of children, 
minors. She probably died in New Bedford, 31 May 1890, aged 
82 years. 

Cyrus, died in New Bedford 4 April 1864, aged 29-10-6. He 
m. in Dartmouth 12 Oct. 1854, Sophia W. Tallman, dau. of 
Stephen and Susan, b. about 1832. She m. (2) 4 Nov. 1868, Jona- 
than A. Tripp in Westport. 

Melvin b. 1837; m. 20 Dec. 1872, Annie F. Briggs, dau. of 
Abel and Elizabeth, ages 35 and 28. 

William Brown b. 1836; m. 28 June 1879, Clara B. Deane, 
dau. of Joseph G. and Lucinda (Palmer), ages 43 and 27. She 
was born 6 Sept. 1852. A dau. Annie R., died 28 July 1885, aged 
9 months. 

Son, b. March 1847. 

70 

Joseph Macomber (Joseph 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Middleborough, Mass., 14 Aug. 1793, married (1) 7 
March 181 9, Lois, dau. of Edward and Lucy Sherman. She was 
born 9 Aug. 1798, and died 25 Oct. 1820. He married (2) 5 
Oct. 1823, Beulah, dau. of Churchill and Hannah C. (Cushman) 
Thomas. She was born 28 Nov. 1801 and died 18 July 1892. 
He died in Middleborough 22 April 1862. She m. (2) 21 May 
1865, James Cole, Sr., of Middleborough. 

Lois Sherman b. 12 Aug. 1820; m. Jacob C. Sparrow. 

Children by second marriage: 

Beulah Ann b. 16 Sept. 1824; m. James Cole, Jr. 

Clarinda Adams b. 3 Oct. 1826; m. George F. Sisson of New 
Bedford. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 49 

Hannah Cushman b. 14 July 1829; m. Apollos G. Alden 24 
May 1857; d. 16 Feb. 1868. 

Elizabeth Clark b. 2 April 1832; m. Richard Cox of Red- 
bank, N. J. 

7i 

Elizabeth Macomber (Joseph 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Middleborough, Mass., 22 Aug. 1797; m. 2 Nov. 1817, 
Alden Clark. She died 24 April 1863. He died 4 Oct. 1857, 
aged 63 years 9 months. Both are buried in North Rochester, 
Mass. I have a silhouette of Elizabeth (Macomber) Clark, which 
my mother, her cousin, obtained when she was a student at Pierce 
Academy, Middleborough, about 1830. 

Josiah Robinson Clark b. 12 July 1818; m. Mareda White of 
Taunton in 1843; d. 28 Oct. 1876. Ch., Elizabeth Alden b. 30 
Jan. 1845, m - Frank P. Keith of Brockton and had a dau. Mareda 
Clark Keith, b. 11 Feb. 1879; he d. 28 Oct. 1876. 

Abraham Miller Clark b. 19 Nov. 1821 ; m. 20 Oct. 1845, 
Mary Wilde Keith, and had ch., Mary Abbie b. 27 Sept. 1857, d. 
30 April 1876; Pardon Keith b. 19 Mch. 1849, d. 7 Sept. 1852; 
Annie Miller b. 14 Jan. 1851, d. 25 July 1903. He d. n Feb. 
1856. 

Alden Augustus Clark b. 12 Feb. 1822; m. Susan Pitts. Son, 
Wm. Augustus, b. 10 May 1852, m. Abbie F. Dunham and had 
dau. Susan G. Clark b. 4 Nov. 1876. 

Theodore G. Clark, died 11 Jan. 1839, aged 11 years. 

72 

Stephen Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Durham, Me., 26 May 1803, married (1) at Minot, Me., 9 
Nov. 1825, Sarah, daughter of William and Ruth (Briggs) 
Francis. She was born 8 Dec. 1807 and died in Parkman, Me., 
4 April 1853. He married, (2) at Cambridge, Me., 5 Sept. 1857, 
Mrs. Rhoda A. (Dorr) Firbush, born in Harmony, Me., 30 Aug. 
1 82 1. She died at Parkman 24 Nov. 1890. Stephen Macomber 
died at Parkman, 30 April 1877. Farmer. Children: 

113. Stephen F. b. 11 May 1827; m. Mary A. Littlefield, (2) 
Lizzie E. Gray. 

114. George Ricker b. 16 Dec. 1829; m. Jerusha D. Packard. 



50 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

115. Horatio N. b. 12 June 1833; m. Sarah Watson. 
Sarah Jane b. in Parkman 17 April 1837; d. 10 May 

1847- 

116. Eliza J. b. 21 June 1840; m. Mark L. Littlefield. 

117. Esther Parthenia b. Feb. 1843; m - J onn E. Lang- 
worthy. 

118. Julia Ann b. 19 Aug. 1845; m - Stedman Hatch. 
Charles A. b. 10 June 1849; m. (1) Feb. 1870 Ella F. 

Whittemore. Divorced in 1873. One ch., Mabel Ann, b. 8 May 
1871, m. 23 Feb. 1888, Arthur H. Cleasby. Charles A., m. (2) 
8 Nov. 1879, Mary F. Golden, at San Francisco, Cal. 
Children by second marriage : 

Emma V. b. 18 Feb. 1859; d. at Milo, Me., 18 April 1883. 

Clarence L. b. 28 July 1861 ; d. 28 Aug. 1862. 

119. Elmer Allen b. 25 Jan. 1864; m. Etta A. Harvey. 

73 

Julia Ann Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Durham, Me., 26 Feb. 1805, married, 30 May 1822, Joseph 
Curtis, who was born at Lisbon, Me., 1 July 1799, and died at 
Bangor, Me., 21 April 1885. She died in Bangor 30 May 1882. 
They lived for a while in Parkman, Me., before moving to Ban- 
gor. Children : 

Joseph M. Curtis b. at Lisbon, Me., 28 July 1823 ; m. Adelia 
F. Thomas at Monson, Me. ; d. 12 Dec. 1883. Ch., Fred and 
Fannie, both of Foxcroft, Me., Fannie m. W. W. Flint. 

Charles Curtis b. at Parkman, Me., 12 Aug. 1825 ; m. Sept. 
1869, Dorcas P. Feare in Gloucester, Mass. ; d. at Waynsville, 
Me., aged 51 years 7 months 7 days. One ch., Sylvia Louise. 

Ann Julia Curtis b. at Parkman, 23 April 1829. Unm., Liv- 
ing at Old Ladies' Home, Bangor, Me. 

Sylvia Nye Curtis b. at Parkman, Me., 6 Dec. 1834; m. 12 
April 1856, Henry Wareham Briggs, b. in Hudson, Me., 6 Aug. 
1833. Ch., Laura Ellen b. 9 July 1859, m. 20 Aug. 1891, Har- 
land R. Leighton of Boston; Charles Wareham b. 10 March 1857, 
d. 23 Feb. 1861 ; Fred Percy b. 2 Oct. 1862, m. 3 Aug. 1893, Mrs. 
Amy Allen of Orono, Me., and d. at Scarboro, Me., 21 May 1898. 
He graduated at the University of Maine in 1889 and was after- 
ward a Professor there. Agnes Mason b. 3 Feb. 1865, m. 4 July 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 5 1 

1887 Roscoe Wentworth of Bradford, Me., and d. 13 Dec. 1887. 
Eva May b. 21 Jan. 1867, m. 2 Aug. 1891, Burton R. Laselle of 
West Upton, Mass., and had son, Raymond Brooks Laselle b. 10 
May 1893. Mabel Gertrude b. 10 April 1870, d. 4 Dec. 1891 in 
Boston, Mass. Burt Erastus b. 29 July 1872, m. 28 May 1896, 
Mardelle F. Brookins of Hudson, Me. ,at Bangor. 

Eliza Ellen Curtis b. at Guilford, Me., 1 1 Oct. 1837 ; d. 25 
Sept. 1848. 

Horatio Everett Curtis b. at Guilford, Me., 21 Aug. 1839, 
d. 16 Aug. 1854. 

Frank A. Curtis b. at Guilford, Me., 19 Dec. 1842; m. Dec. 
1868, Hattie O. Jackson of Bangor, Me. He lives at Orlando, 
Florida (1904), and has one dau., Marion, who is married and 
has a daughter. 

74 
Adams Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Durham, Me., 26 July 1808, married, 10 Dec. 1832, at 
Minot, Me., Betsey Briggs, who was born at Minot 7 Oct. 1805, 
and died at Bremen, Ind., 15 Feb. 1884. He lived as a farmer in 
Parkman, Me., and then moved to Indiana. He died at New 
Paris, Ind., 8 Nov. 1853. Children: 

120. William B. b. 19 Nov. 1833; m. Belinda Hess. 
Elijah A. b. 9 Aug. 1836; d. at New Paris, Ind., 20 

Sept. 1864, from the effect of wounds received at the battle of 
Chickamauga in the Civil War. 

121. Hiram J. b. 14 June 1839; m. Eliza M. Messick. 

122. John L. b. 30 May 1843; m - Deborah Tripp. 

123. Zebina Alonzo b. 3 March 1848; m. Rebecca Price. 

75 

Eliza Swett Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 9 April 1810; married, 8 Nov. 1838, 
Samuel O. Stackpole of Durham, Me., his second wife. She died 
at Brunswick, Me., 12 May 1888. He was born at Durham, 19 
Dec. 1794, and died at Brunswick, 7 April 1876. See History and 
Genealogy of the Stackpole Family, pp. 155-157- 

Julia Ann Stackpole b. 18 Sept. 1839; m. 11 May 1880, 
Charles Harrison Brown. Lives at Brunswick, Me. 



52 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Elizabeth Dunning Stackpole b. 2 Jan. 1842 ; m. 1 Oct. 
1865, Dennis Callahan; d. 19 March 1873. Two ch. 

Mary Blanchard Stackpole b. 21 Sept. 1843. Unm. 

Benjamin Franklin Stackpole b. 2 Oct. 1845 J d. 2 June 
1867. 

Sylvia Nye Stackpole b. 22 Dec. 1847; d. 2I Nov. 1873. 
Teacher. 

Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole b. 11 June 1850; m. 20 
Aug. 1878, Elizabeth Augusta Blake. A.B., 1871, A.M., 1874, 
D.D. 1888, Bowdoin. Pastor of Congregational Church, Brad- 
ford, Mass. Has son, Everett Birney Stackpole, b. 11 Dec. 1879, 
A.B. 1900, Bowdoin; A.M. 1902, Columbia; lawyer in Seattle, 
Wash. 

Howard Vinton Stackpole b. 22 March 1853; m. (1) 13 
April 1896, Cora Jeannette Curtis, who was b. 12 June 1867 and d. 
21 Feb. 1900, (2) m. 23 April 1901, Leila Aveline McFarland. 
Lives in Danielson, Conn. 

76 

Washington Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 10 Sept. 1812, married at Freeport, 
Me., 19 Sept. 1839, Abigail Davis, who was born at Falmouth, 
Me., 24 Oct. 1803, and died at Biddeford, Me., 2 Nov. 1885. He 
lived in Brunswick, Me., and Lynn, Mass., where he died 12 
Sept. 1874. Children : 

Francis A. b. in Durham, Me., 25 July 1840. Unknown. 

George W. b. in Durham, Jan. 1842, d. Sept. 1843. 

77 
Horatio N. Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 22 June 1814, married (1) at Port- 
land, Me., 28 July 1836, Mary Bradbury Wingate, who was born 
at Buxton, Me., 16 Jan. 1810, and died at Jersey City, N. J., 3 
Oct. 1893. They were divorced. He married (2) 28 Sept. 1866, 
Miss L. Maria Pratt, born 1823 and died at Munroe, Mich., 2 Jan. 
1871. He married (3) 8 Feb. 1880, Mrs. Elizabeth B. (Lam- 
bert) Henderson, born in Fairfield, Ohio, 5 April 1832. They 
were married at Walkerton, Ind. He died at Walkerton, 17 Aug. 
1890. He was for some years a preacher in the Maine Confer- 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 53 

ence of the M. E. Church, efficient and highly respected. He 
afterward became a dentist and practiced at Lynn, Mass., and in 
Indiana. Three childrn by first wife : 

Horatio E. b. in York, Me., 4 Feb. 1838; m. at Lynn, Mass., 
21 Aug. 1862, Ellen Homans, born at Marblehead, Mass., 26 Oct. 
1840. He is an organist in New York City. Ch., Jennie Well- 
man b. 19 May 1866, d. 25 June 1883; Susie Glover b. 3 Oct. 
1868, unm. ; Win. Homans b. 12 July 1872, d. 24 July 1872; 
George Everett b. 7 Nov. 1777, d. 25 June 1878. 

Mary Susan b. in Newfield, Me., 26 May 1840; m. 24 Jan. 
1858, Sylvester H. Bubier of Lynn, Mass. She d. 26 June 1858. 
One son, Edward Trevet Bubier b. 3 April 1859. 

Martha Jane b. 20 May 1842, at Cornish, Me. ; d. 24 May 
1846, at Saco. 

78 

Leonard Macomber (Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Durham, Me., 30 May 1816, married,(i) 28 April 1842, 
his cousin, Jane Swett, at Turner, Me. She was born 8 June 
1819, at Turner, and died 27 Sept. 1851. He married (2) at 
Turner, 1 July 1852, Louisa M. Teague, who was born at Turner 
8 Aug. 1828, and died 14 Sept. 1852. He married (3) 1 May 
1853, Abigail Gerrish, born 9 Sept. 1814, and died March 1863. 
He married (4) 7 April 1869, at Brunswick, Me., Sarah Alexan- 
der, who was born at Brunswick 15 Jan. 1824, and died at Dur- 
ham, 9 Feb. 1904. He died 13 June 1889, in Durham, where he 
had lived as a farmer. He was a respected citizen and served as 
selectman and Representative in the state Legislature. Three 
children by first marriage and one by third : 

Son, died in infancy. 

Joseph b. at Turner, Me., 8 Jan. 1845 5 d. 29 July 1864, 
at Andersonville Prison, Ga., being a soldier in the Civil War. 

124. George L. b. in Durham, Me., 29 Nov. 1848; m. Annie 
Esther Thurston. 

Everett Leroy b. at Durham, Me., 4 Sept. 1854; m. 12 
May 1904, Fanny Amelia, dau. of Charles and Sarah A. (Pendex- 
ter) Dunn of Poland and Auburn, Me. He lives at Durham, Me., 
on the homestead. 



54 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

78 a. 

John Macomber (John 5 , Samuel 4 , Samuel 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) 
born in Rehoboth, Mass, 12 Aug. 1786; married, 6 Dec. 1812, 
Sarah Smith of Rehoboth, who died March 1843, aged 72. He 
m. (2) Peck, who died 1 April 1862. He died in Reho- 
both Dec. 1859, aged J$ years 4 months 5 days. It is very proba- 
ble that he had the following son and perhaps other children. 

125. John b. 1814; m. Mary Smith. 

79 

Lemuel Macomber (Lemuel 5 , Samuel 4 , Samuel 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Rehoboth, Mass., 30 Aug. 1780, married, 29 Dec. 
1805, Hannah Burr of Rehoboth. He died 9 April 1849. She 
died 2 March 1857, aged 70-10-19. 

Lydia Burr b. 2 May 1807; pub. 25 Nov. 1825 to Elisha Will- 
worth. 

Samuel Capron b. 23 Dec. 181 3 ; d. 27 April 1876. Unm. 

Sylvanus B. b. 1822; d. 22 Feb. 1857. Unm. 

Fanny b. ; pub. 23 Mch. 1844 to James Gould of 

Attleboro. 

SEVENTH GENERATION 
80 

Charles Macomber (Charles 6 , Jonathan 5 , Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 24 April 1808, married, 
(1) 28 Feb. 1840, Eusebia N., dau. of Eleazer and Elizabeth 
(Warren) Flagg, who was born in Conway, M»ss., 13 April 1815, 
and died 23 June 1844. He married (2) 17 jan. 1850, Martha, 
widow of Herman P. Graves and dau. of Lothrop Squier. Two 
children by first marriage and four by second. He died in Con- 
way, Mass., 16 Dec. 1876. 

Henry Langdon b. 3 June 1842; m. (1) 27 Dec. 1864, Clara 
Wood Lamb, dau. of Samuel and Maria (Wood) Lamb, born in 
Colerain 3 Dec. 1845, an ^ died in Amherst 10 May 1899, (2) 9 
Jan. 1900, Katharyn Augusta, dau. of Alonzo Warren and Eliza 
Ann (Mullen) Freeman, and widow of William Haskins, born 11 
March 1847. O ne son > by ^ rst marriage, William Henry, b. in 
Amherst, Mass., 2y April 1871, m. 30 June 1900, Estella May, 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 55 

dau. of Eugene C. and Phebe H. (Rogers) Hallett, born at St. 
Johnsbury, Vt, iy April 1874. 

Charles Albert b. 10 July 1843; d. 8 July 1870; m. 3 Jan. 
1866, Mary E. Lamb, sister of his brother Henry's first wife, and 
widow of Harrison G. Scott, born in Whately, Mass., 12 Nov. 
1836. Daughter, Clara Eusebia b. 21 Nov. 1868, d. 25 Nov. 
1868. His widow m. (3) George Hastings, 18 March 1874. 

Fidelia E. b. 185 1 ; m. Hoyt Cary of Conway. Lives in North 
Adams, Mass. 

Carrie R. b. 1852; m. 19 March 1876, Edgar Holton of Tur- 
ner's Falls, Mass. Lives in New Haven, Conn. 

Hattie P. b. 1854; m. Dana Phelps. Lives in Buchanan, 
Mich. 

Annie H. b. i860; m. 18 May 1886, George Marks of Hay- 
densville, Mass. 

81 

Alpheus Macomber (Jonathan 6 , Jonathan 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Conway, Mass., 30 July 181 5, 
married Ophelia Pomeroy and died 10 Dec. 1890. Lived in 
Fowlerville, N. Y. 2 ch. 

Judson b. — Jan. 1850. 

Ella b. 1 Dec. 1857. Unm. 

82 

Philip Augustus Macomber (Phillip 6 , Stephen 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 9 Nov. 1806, married, 
6 Oct. 183 1, Sarah C, dau. of Joshua and Mary (Williams) 
Padelford, born 11 April 1812. She died 19 July 1898. He 
lived at 128 County Street, Taunton, and died there 28 March 
1900. Children: 

Sarah J. b. 28 July 1832 ; m. 1 Dec. 1853, Silas S. 
Hood; d. s. p. 30 Aug. 1872. 

125. a. George A. b. 22 Nov. 1833; m. Elizabeth Scott, 4 Dec. 
1 871. 

126. Phillip Franklin b. 29 March 1835 ; m. Bessie Make- 
piece. 

William E. b. 14 March 1837; m. 11 July 1900, Abbie 

E. Johnson, born 16 May 1848, dau. of ex-Mayor Charles F. 



56 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Johnson of Taunton. Soldier in the Civil War. Now a police- 
man in Taunton. 

Nancy Ann b. 12 April 1839; died in infancy. 

Nancy P. b. 24 Jan. 1841 ; m. (1) 12 July 1858, Fred- 
erick Leonard King, born 17 Nov. 1837. He d. 11 March 1867. 
She m. (2) 12 Dec 1871, Thomas Johnson, born 3 Jan. 1827. He 
d. 22 Aug. 1898. She lives in Taunton. Two ch., by first mar- 
riage, Cora E. King b. 23 Oct. 1859, m. 15 March 1883, Clarence 
Macomber, and Elmer F. King, b. 12 May 1862, m. 30 Sept. 1884, 
Adaline F. Balcom, born 20 June 1863. 

Henry Harrison b. 9 July 1844; m. 12 Nov. 1871, 
Keziah L., dau. of Charles and Mary (Leonard) Eaton. Lives at 
152 County Street, Taunton, Mass. 

127. Seth C. b. 13 Sept. 1846; m. Emily W. Winslow, 12 
Dec. 1874. 

128. Alvah Page b. 30 Jan. 1848; m Abby Mary Brooks, 15 
Oct. 1873. 

83 
Joseph Leonard Macomber (Philip 6 , Stephen 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, 29 July 1808, married 
Dordana, daughter of John and Dordana (Pierce) Godfrey. He 
died in Taunton 10 Jan. 1892. Children: 

Dordana b. 7 Feb. 1834; m. 19 Nov. 1862, David Dean; 
d. 5 Nov. 1876. 

Mary W. b. 13 April 1835 ; d. 8 June 1885. Unm. 

Joseph Leonard b. 8 March 1837; m. 5 June 1859, 
Annie Eliza, dau. of Davis and Mary Ann (Dunham) Hard- 
ing. She, b. 17 March 1844, d. 11 Jan. 1892. One ch., Annie 
Leonora, b. 6 Nov. i860, m. 7 Oct. 1885, Nathan Parke Shedd 
and lives in Taunton. Joseph L. d. 29 March 1891. 

129. Charles H. b. 8 Aug. 1838; m. Susan P. Macomber, 24 
Feb. 1864. 

Clarinda b. 1 Jan. 1842; d. 6 April 1897. Unm. 

130. Edward F. b. 4 Nov. 1839; m. Fannie K. Howland, 23 
March 1870. 

Abbie b. 3 April 1843 > lives at 90 County Street, Taun- 
ton. Unm. 

Emily D. b. 25 Sept. 1844; m. 1 Jan. 1871, Rufus D. 
Richmond. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 57 

Harriet Pierce b. 16 March 1846. Unm. Teacher, 
Taunton. 

Arthur W. b. 24 Nov. 1847; unm. Traveling salesman. 

Stephen b. 23 Oct. 1849. Unm. Ellendale, N. Dakota. 

Gaius b. 15 June 1852 ; d. 2 June 1901 ; m. 31 May 1877, 
Lucy M. Phinney of Eastport, Me., dau. of William and Mary E., 
born in 185 1. One son, Ernest Leslie, b. 20 April 1878, a stu- 
dent at Amherst College. 

Clarence b. 28 March 1854; m. 15 March 1883, Cora 
E. dau. of Frederick and Nancy P. (Macomber) King, b. 23 Oct. 
1859. Lives at 87 County Street, Taunton, Mass. A dau. b. 12 
Nov. 1885, prob. died young. 

Alice b. 14 Oct. 1856. Unm. Teacher, Taunton. 

Addison b. 6 March 1855; d. 8 April 1855. 

84 

William Frederick Macomber (Philip 6 , Stephen 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 1 July 1810, married, 8 
Dec. 1833, Susan P., dau. of Deacon Ebenezer and Susan P. 
(Booth) Staples of Lakeville, Mass., born 14 March 1815. She 
died 16 Jan. 1884. He lived in Taunton and died there 6 Nov. 
1885. Children: 

Susan P. b. 28 May 1837 ; m. 24 Feb. 1864, Charles, son 
of Joseph L. and Dordana (Godfrey) Macomber, her cousin; d. 
11 Feb. 1894. 

Martha C. b. 31 July 1838; d. 30 March 1844. 

William Frederick b. 2 Nov. 1840; d. at Ship Island, 
20 July 1863. Co. G 4th M. V. M. 

131. James Otis b. 2 Dec. 1842; m. Martha M. Hewlett, (2) 
Mary J. Burton. 

132. Henry Bradford b. 2 Oct. 1844; m. Jemima F. Wood- 
ward. 

133. Horatio Page b. 9 Aug. 1846; m. Annette M. Hathaway, 
(2) Ida Jane Conehoven. 

Marcus C. b. 8 Aug. 1848 ; d. 29 Sept. 1850. 
Warren Albert b. 30 July 1850; m. 29 Dec. 1875 Lizzie 
S., dau. of Aurelian and Jennie Brown of S. Manchester, Ct., 
born 1 July 1852, and d. 25 April 1897. One ch., Clifton Brown, 
b. 14 Dec. 1880. 



58 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

134. Marcus Clifford b. 28 Aug. 1852; m. Julia F. Kenefick, 
(2) Mary A. D. McAdams. 

Martha Augusta b. 8 Nov. 1854; d. 28 July 1855. 
Chester A. b. 8 April 1858; d. 8 Oct. 1858. 

85 

Samuel W. Macomber (Asa Allen 6 , Nathan 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 ,. 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 31 May 1826, married (1) 24 
Nov. 1854, Eliza Green of Seekonk, who died 12 Aug. i860, aged 
32 years. He married, (2) 31 Jan. 1867 Sarah Benton, dau. of 

and Elizabeth (Goodwin) Benton, born in 1840. He died 

6 Sept. 1893. Children by first marriage: 

Nathan, died 9 Sept. 1857, aged 1 year 9 months. 

Eliza b. 1859; m. 4 Jan. 1881, Charles A. Atwood of Dighton, 
Mass. 

Child by second marriage : 

Nathan Samuel b. 19 Feb. 1867; m. 19 Feb. 1900, Emma A., 
dau. of John and Diana (Miller) Doel, or Doyle, aged 23 years. 

86 

Ebenezer Macomber (Ebenezer 6 , Rufus 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 1 June 1828; married 13 
Sept. 1858 Waite H. Spooner, dau. of Nathaniel and Hannah of 
New Bedford, b. 1835. 

Arthur Abraham b. 26 Aug. i860; m. 1 Nov. 1883, Ella G., 

dau. of Jacob C. and Melvina A. ( ) Haskins, born 1864. 

Ch., born in Taunton, Clifford Haskins b. 23 June 1887. Mildred 
Ella b. 12 Sept. 1889. Maud Gladys b. 17 July 1892. 

Edward S. b. 3 Feb. 1867; m. 2 Sept. 1888, Flora L. Macom- 
ber, dau. of Rufus B. and Louisa (Soule) Macomber of West- 
port, Mass., born 5 Feb. 1869. Ch., Ralph Edward b. 19 Feb. 
1890; Herbert Leon b. 30 Oct. 1895; Clarence Lewis b. 6 July 
1897; and Wallace Raymond b. 3 May 1899. 

87 

Calvin D. Macomber (Calvin Dean 6 , John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , 

John 2 , John 1 ), born in Dorchester, Mass., May 1817, married in 

New Bedford, Mass., 4 April 1837, Mary L., dau. of Luther and 

Betsey (Austin) Haskins. He became a trader in Boston and 






MACOMBER GENEALOGY 59 

died there 16 July 1879. She died in Boston 18 Jan. 1892, aged 
71 yrs. Children so far as found on public records : 

Calvin D. b. in New Bedford 24 July 1837; d. in Boston 29 
Oct. 1858. 

Franklin L.b. in New Bedford 8 Aug. 1839; m. 17 April 1859 
Charlotte A. Bryant in Boston, dau. of Elijah and Sarah A., age 
17. She m. (2) in Boston, 8 April 1879, John W. Shepherd. 
Two sons by first marriage are known, Eugene E., b. abt. 1861 
m. 30 June 1881 Frances J., dau. of John E. and Lydia A. 
Bartlett of Boston, age 17; and Edward b. abt. 1864 m. 26 Mch. 
1895, Mrs. Annie Butler McClean, dau. of William and Eliza- 
beth (Narson), b. in Ireland. 

William P. b. abt. 1842 ; m. 8 Aug. 1871 Emma, dau. of 
William Pickett of Boston, age 19. Dau. Elvira Revere b. in 
Boston 4 Aug. 1872. Son, William D. died in Chelsea 16 May 
1897, aged 22 yrs. Dau. Adelia R. b. abt. 1873; m. 27 Apr. 1892 
Arthur W. Campbell in Everett, Mass. 

Eleanor B. b. 10 Apr. 1844; m. 18 Jan. 1864, Edward R. 
Morse. 

Ann E. died in Boston 9 Aug. 1858, aged 12 yrs. 4 mos. 

Alexander P. died in Boston 27 Apr. 1873, aged 24 yrs. 7 mos. 

88 

William H. Macomber (Calvin Dean 6 , John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born 2 Dec. 1818 in Dorchester, Mass., married 30 
Nov. 1843, Mary E. Burgess of Hardwick, Mass., dau. of Luther 
and Prudence (Earl), born 22 March 1823. He lived in 
Uxbridge, Mass. He died in New Bedford, 12 May 1880. 
Served in 21st Massachusetts Infantry and 2d Massachusetts 
Cavalry in the Civil War. 

Calvin L. b. 23 June 1844; m. 2 June 1872, Lucetta A., dau. 
of Horace H. and Isabel M. Cox. Served four years in the Civil 
War. Res. Worcester, Mass. 

Emily E. b. 25 Sept. 1846; m. 22 Oct. 1868 Parker H. Fales. 

William H. b. 11 March 1849; d. 16 Aug. 1850. 

Lillian Imogene b. 20 Sept. 185 1 ; d. 25 Aug. 1869. 

Ellen Maria b. 26 July 1853; m. 1870 O. B. E. Chipman; d. 
31 Oct. 1873. 

Mary E. b. 21 Sept. 1856; d. 15 Sept. 1870. 



60 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

8 9 

Gardner H. Macomber (John J. 6 , John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Oakham, Mass., 27 Oct. 1828, married 10 
Apr. 185 1, in Barre, Mass., Henrietta Woodis, dau. of Edward 
and Catherine (Holmes) born 19 Aug. 1832 in Braintree, Mass. 
Lived in Barre and Hudson, Mass., where he died 7 Nov. 1896, 
aged 68-0-10. She died 4 Nov. 1896, aged 64-2-17. They had, 
besides several who died very young, the following children 
named in his will : 

Gardner E. b. at Barre 2 Aug. 1859; m. 17 Oct. 1896, Grace 
L., dau. of Vernon L. and Anna M. (McPortland) Woodward. 
Lives in Worcester, Mass. 

Etta N. b. 1871 ; m. Warren H. Bigelow of Hudson, 

Mass., 13 June 1890. 

Frank Parker b. 18 Aug. 1873. Lives in Hudson, Mass. ; m. 
27 Feb. 1898, Florence Gertrude, dau. of Giles C. and Lydia A. 
(Brown) Fernald. 

Angie H. b. : — , 1877; m. 5 Jan. 1898, Henry W. Par- 

menter. 

90 

John Macomber (John , John 5 , John 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), 
born in Oakham, Mass., 31 May 1834, married (1) 25 Sept. 1856, 
Harriet, dau. of Welcome and Harriet Doane, who, born in North 
Brookfield, Mass., 10 Nov. 1836, died at Worcester, Mass., 25 
July 1874. He married (2) at North Brookfield, Mass., 19 Nov. 
1878, Ellen Forshay, dau. of James and Mary Ann. He died at 
Oakham 5 Nov. 1882; widow m. his brother Calvin. 

George L. died at Oakham 28 Feb. 1863, aged 2 years 2 months. 

Nellie A. b. 23 July 1857; m. Charles Rhoades. 

George Garfield, d. at North Brookfield 22 Dec. 1880, aged 5 
months 22 days. 

John, died 9 Dec. 1885, aged 3-9-27. 

James Luther d. at Worcester 19 Oct. 1886. 

9i 

Daniel Macomber (Seth 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Paris, Maine, about 1785; married, 22 Nov. 1807, 
Mary, dau. of Edmund and Patience (Barrows) Bowker of Paris 
and Hebron, Me. She was born 12 Aug. 1788 and was living in 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 6l 

1850. He was living at Bradford, Me., in 1850, aged 65, a physi- 
cian. Three children are recorded in Paris, Me. 

Maria b. 11 Nov. 1808. 

Mary Ann b. 6 Aug. 1814. 

Hiram b. 31 Jan. 1816; m. Urania Chamberlain, who was born 
in Rockland, Me. He probably died before 1850, when she was 
living, aged 33, in Bradford, Me., with two children. Daniel D. 
b. about 1838; m. at Boston, 21 Sept. i860, Maria G. Farley, aged 
22, dau. of James and Maria. She died at Chelsea, Mass., a 
widow, 6 Oct. 1883, aged 44. Children: Idell, d. at Chelsea 19 
Oct. i860. George b. at Chelsea 21 Feb. 1865. Florence b. at 
Chelsea 26 Feb. 1867; m. 31 Dec. 1896, Ernest N. Weston. 
Susan L., dau. of Hiram, died in Cambridge, Mass., 30 Jan. 1900, 
aged 48-5-12. Unm. 

92 

Rev. Samuel Macomber (Seth 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Paris, Me., in 1790; married (1) 12 Sept. 1824, 
Rebecca F. Coombs, dau. of Jesse and Hannah (Richards) of 
Islesborough, Me., born 6 April 1805. He was ordained as an 
evangelist in the Baptist Church at Vinalhaven, Me., in 1820. 
He lived in Ellsworth, Bradford, Penobscot, etc. He married 
(2) about 1847, M rs - Martha Carter, widow of Amos Carter, and 
dau. of George G. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Choate, born at Deer 
Isle, Me., 27 Feb. 1809. Later they lived in Revere, Mass., where 
he died in 1866. She died 23 June 1890 in Brooklin, Me. 
Children as gathered from public records : 

Adoniram Judson b. in Bradford, Me., 15 Oct. 1825; d. in 

Newton, Mass., 1 March 1895, a & e< 3 69-4-16; m. Lucretia . 

A dau. Grace d. at Newton 16 Feb. 1865, aged 2-7-12. 

James Loring b. in Islesborough, Me., in 1827; m. Mary M. 
Donnell of Franklin, Me. Was a blacksmith in Ellsworth, Me., 
where he d. 22 Nov. 1904, aged yy. Two children are known, 
Francis S. b. about 1857; m. (1) Cora F., dau. of Roswell K. and 
Nancy (Patten) Swett of Surry, Me. She d. 21 Sept. 1901, aged 
42-10-23. He m. (2) 9 Sept. 1902 Alice Mary Miller of Pal- 
myra, Me., dau. of Benjamin F. and Loantha H. (Morrill) Miller. 
He was then a blacksmith, living in Corinna, Me. Arthur Lor- 
ing b. in Ellsworth 12 Sept. 1869. Graduated at the Medical 



62 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

School in Brunswick, Me., in 1895. He d. at Albuquerque, N. 
M., 23 Nov. 1904. 

Josiah F. b. about 1829; m. at age of 32 in Boston, 2 Sept. 
1861, Mary Chester, age 23, dau. of John and Elizabeth, b. in St. 
Andrews, N. B. 

Samuel Kingsley b. about 1830; m. Ellen A. Robinson of 
Montville, Me. Pub. 3 May 1854. Watchmaker at Rockland, 
Me. Ch., Eva A. b. 1855; Ellen A. b. about 1859, m. in Boston 
29 Oct. 1885, Hanford T. Crosby; Arthur b. about 1875, m. 23 
July 1898, Ada E. Marshall, aged 21, dau. of John and Susan 
(Richards) Marshall of Camden, Me. Perhaps other children. 

George B. b. about 1832, in Ellsworth; m. (1) 26 Oct. 1859, 
Harriet Adeline, dau. of Constant and Harriet (Stevens) Rankin, 
b. 5 Sept. 1836 in Rockland, Me. He m. (2) 27 Nov. 1895, 
Grace F., dau. of Henry W. and Hannah (Lancaster) Smith. 
She d. 26 Nov. 1898, aged 39-1 1-12. He is a jeweler in Thom- 
aston, Me. 

William b. about 1833 ; living in 1850. 

Horace Linsley b. 12 Sept. 1835; m. in Castine, Me., Mar- 
garet Bowden. Watchmaker in Castine and Rockland. He d. 
19 Dec. 1893. Had two daus. and a son, George S., who m. Car- 
rie Bowden and lives in Rockland, having children, ; son 

b. 12 Feb. 1893; child b. 26 Oct. 1894; Carrie M. b. 5 Nov. 1896; 
and Dorothy R. b. 4 Sept. 1899. The mother of the last three is 
reported as Carrie E. Moore. 

Augustus H. b. about 1840; m. Lizzie Joy. A son, Fred H., 
m. in Gloucester, Mass., April 25, 1900, Ella B. Mason, dau. of 
Lewis and Lizzie. 

Hannah C. b. about 1840; m. 19 Nov. 1862, in Gloucester. 
Mass., Henry Blake, Jr., mariner, b. in Brookville, Me. 

Marietta d. at S. Danvers, Mass., 3 June 1861, aged 19-7-21. 
Unm. 

Children by second marriage : 

Byron C. b. at Bluehill, Me., 1848; d. 27 July 1871, aged 23 
years 9 months. Unm. 

Edward F. b. 1850; m. in Revere, Mass., 29 June 1880, Mary 
C. Mayo, dau. of Joseph B. and Mary R. b. in Chelsea, Mass. He 
lives in Revere, Mass. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 63 

93 

Nathaniel Hall Macomber (Southworth 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bristol, Me., 24 Jan. 1808, married 
(1) 15 Oct. 1832, Irena Williams. She was born in Litchfield, 
Me., 6 April 1812, and died in Bowdoinham, Me., 31 Oct. 1840. 
He married (2), 19 Oct. 1841, Judith P. Bloomer. She was 
born in Bowdoinham 12 July 181 1 and died in Bath, Me., 31 Dec. 
1888. He lived in Bowdoinham and Bath. Sea captain. He 
died in Bath 23 May 1884. Four children by first marriage and 
perhaps one daughter by second. 

John F. b. 24 Dec. 1833 d. 18 Jan. 1834. 

Solon b. 4 Jan. 1835 ; m. 10 Oct. 1866 Laura A. Harris of Vas- 
salboro, Me.; m. (2) Lida Gordon. One dau. Ella B. Lives in 
Auburn, Me. 

Nathaniel b. 28 Aug. 1838; lost at sea in 1858. 

Margaret b. 3 Nov. 1839; died in infancy. 

94 

William C. Macomber (Southworth 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bowdoinham, Me., 3 Jan. 1819, died 20 
July 1844. He married Julia Ann Wheeler, who was born 2.J 
Jan. 1819. She married (2) Silas Colburn and died 20 March 
1900. 

134. a. Norman Mansfield b. 18 Oct. 1840; m. Adaline S. 
Thurston. 

95 

James Robinson Macomber (Ebenezer 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bowdoinham, Me, 15 April 1802, 
married (1) 11 Jan. 1824, Myra Gay Lawrence, dau. of Meltiah 
and Jerusha (Moore) Lawrence of Gardiner, Me. She, born 20 
Sept. 1805, died 20 Dec. 1851. He married (2) 24 April 1853 
Mercy Wardwell Perkins of Brooksville, Me. Lived in Bangor, 
Me., and Anoka, Minn., where he died 28 Nov. 1886. Children 
by first marriage : 

Caroline Matilda b. 16 Sept. 1824; d. 25 Sept. 1824. 

James Uriel b. 8 Oct. 1825 ; d. 14 Oct. 1825. 

Son b. and d. 26 Aug. 1826. 

Frances Augusta b. 28 Sept. 1827 ; d. same day. 

Son b. and d. 7 July 1829. 



64 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

James Franklin b. 18 Sept. 1832 ; m. 1 Jan. 1852, Mary A. 
Pearsons ; d. s. p. March 1903, in Minneapolis, Minn. Watch- 
maker. 

Loring b. 28 July 1833; m. 7 Aug. 1854, Priscilla Alexander; 
d. s. p. 7 Oct. 1857 at St. Anthony, Minn. 

Frances Augusta b. 24 Feb. 1835; m - 7 Aug. 1854, Elijah F. 
Hurd; lived at Clear Lake, Minn. 

Children by second marriage : 

Caroline Muzzy b. 10 March 1854; teacher in Minneapolis, 
Minn. 

Walter Perkins b. 10 May 1859; m. 23 Aug. 1877, Lydia 
Jeannette Kelsey. They live at Anoka, Minn. Daughter, Lizzie 
Washburn, b. 4 Aug. 1878. 

96 

Uriel Huntington Macomber (Ebenezer 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel*, 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bowdoinham, Me., 24 Jan. 1804, 
married, 22 Oct. 1827, Mercy Wardwell and lived in Bristol, Me. 
He died at Natchez, Miss., 20 Nov. 1837. She was born 4 Dec. 
1806 and died 28 Oct. 1838. 

135. Converse O. b. 8 Aug. 1828; m. (1) 2 June 1840 Mary 
J. Wardwell, (2) 13 March 1858, Hester Maria Lewis. 

136. Otis b. 6 June 1831 ; m. 5 April 1853, Mary Adell Per- 
kins. 

Maria McLain b. 23 Jan. 1833 ; m. 10 April 1853, Wil- 
liam Parker Tapley, born at Brooksville, Me., 19 Oct. 1826. 

97 

Gideon Colcord Macomber (James 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born inBowdoinham, Maine, 14 Jan. 1810, settled 
in Baltimore, Md., in 1831. Stone mason by trade. He mar- 
ried, 10 Jan. 1839, Jane Watt, born in London, Eng., 20 June 181 7. 
He died in Baltimore 20 Nov. 1880. She died 15 March 1891. 

Caroline Sophronia b. 6 Oct. 1840; m. 6 Nov. 1877 Solomon 
Bowen ; d. 17 April 1894. 

Mary Elizabeth b. 17 Jan. 1846. Unmarried. 

George b. 17 May 1848; m. 5 Jan. 1874, Martha R. Dorsey. 
Had son George Abner b. 31 Oct. 1874, who d. 25 Aug. 1902, 
leaving son George Gideon b. 5 Jan. 1898. 

Clara Jane b. 22 April 1854; d. 28 Aug. 1893. Unm. 

James Gideon b. 25 Aug. 1856; d. 7 Sept. 1892. Unm. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 65 

98 

Deacon George Washington Macomber (George , George 5 , 
Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Pelham, Mass, 26 Sept. 
1807, married (1) 25 July 1832, Sarah P. Ripley, dan. of Christo- 
pher and Ruth, born 31 May 1809. She died 26 Sept. 1848. He 
married (2) 24 Oct. 1849, Hannah L., dan. of Benjamin and 
Esther (Libby) Kallock of Warren, Me. He died 31 Aug. 
1869, in Augusta, Me. She born 10 Dec. 1820, died in Augusta, 
Me., 30 Aug. 1905. Children by first marriage : 

Emily Frances b. 15 Sept. 1834; m. 3 Jan. 1858 Charles 
Glidden of Watertown, Mass. I 

Esther Hodges b. 27 Aug. 1841 ; m. Homer R. Stratton 
of Watertown. 

Annie E. b. 11 Sept. 1850; d. 23 July 1852. 
Children by second marriage : 
137. George Ellison b. 6 June 1853; m. Sarah Johnson. 

Harry Dexter b. 22 Oct. 1855 ; m. 28 Oct. 1887, Ida, 
dau. of Jeremiah and Emily S. Mitchell ; d. 9 June 1897. Son, 
George Herbert, b. 24 July 1888, is a student at Bowdoin College. 
Res., Augusta, Me. 

99 

William Harkness Macomber (George 6 , George 5 , Nathan- 
iel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Pelham, Mass., 11 July 1809, 
married Lucy Ann Welsh of Wakefield, N. H., born 18 July 1821. 
He died 23 April 1891 in Michigan. Children : 

Flora Anna b. 23 Aug. 1844, in Easthampton, Mass.; m. 31 
Oct. 1875, James Baumann b. 23 Aug. 1845. Lives in Kalama- 
zoo, Mich. 

William J. b. 24 Aug. 1851 in Willoughby, Ohio; m. 19 June 
1872, Ella Morey, b. 11 May 1861 in Kalamazoo, Mich. He d. 
in Chicago, 23 June 1893. Ch., Blanche E. b. 15 May 1874, and 
Florence B. b. 27 March 1882 in Morrison, 111. 

Maria J. b. in Breedsville, Mich. 14 Oct. 1854; m. 3 Sept. 1878 
Eugene Scott in Kalamazoo, Mich. She d. 17 Feb. 1893. He 
d. 1 May 1902. Son, b. 15 Dec. 1884 and dau. Flora W. b. 19 
March 1890. 

Fannie O. b. in Breedsville, Mich., 29 Apr. 1858; m. 6 Dec. 
1884, Thomas Woodworth in Muskegon, Mich. He d. 11 March 
1900. Son, Thomas C. b. 14 April 1890. 



66 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Frank C. b. 29 April 1858; m. 13 Dec. 1879. Mary M. Allard, 
b. 29 March 1859, in Grand Rapids, Mich. One dau., Carrie T., 
b. in Jacksonville, 111., 14 Jan. 189 r. 

100 

Kingsley Williams Macomber (Ebenezer 6 , George". Nathan- 
iel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 14 March 1813, in New Salem, 
Mass., married 12 Dec. 1839. Maria Sophia, daughter of Elisha 
and Phila (Cooley) Alexander. She was born 10 April 1816, in 
Sunderland, Mass., and died 5 Nov. 1892. He was for years 
principal of the Academy at Shelburne Falls, Mass. For a time 
he was engaged in the silk business at Northampton. Mass. In 
1855 he settled on a farm in Cass County, Iowa, near the site of 
the town of Atlantic. He died in Lewis, Cass Co., Iowa, 13 Oct. 
1895. See pamphlet published by his son, John Kingsley Macom- 
ber, p. 13. 

Arabella Loomis b. 10 Oct. 1840; m. William S. Rey- 
nolds. She accompanied her husband in the Civil War and was 
commissioned by Gov. Richard Yates of Illinois as Major. She 
was known as "Major Belle Reynolds." She later studied and 
practiced medicine. Lives in Santa Barbara, Cal. 

138. Henry Kirke b. 4 July 1843; m - Amelia C. Collerd, 7 
June 1870. 

l 39- John Kingsley b. 2 Feb. 1849; m - Mattie Atwood 
Locke, 22 Feb. 1877. 

George Alexander b. 30 Nov. 1850; m. 1875 Lucy 
Terry of Lewis, Iowa; d. 1882. Ch., Laura and May, living in 
Los Angeles, Cal. 

140. Frank Jewell b. 31 Jan. 1853; m. Clara Hill. 

101 

Squier James Macomber (Ebenezer , George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), -born in New Salem, Mass., 14 Dec. 1815, 
married 1 Jan. 1840, Thankful, dau. of Henry and Wealthy 
( Winslow) Haskins. b. 29 June 1818. He lived in Northampton. 
Mass., and was a contractor in mason work. He died 12 May 
1883. She d. 14 June 1897, aged 78. 

Flora Lucelia b. 3 Oct. 1840; m. 17 Aug. 1863, Edwin C. 
Plumsley. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 67 

Albert Martin b. 4 Dec. 1842, m. 9 May 1872 at Somerville, 
Eva M. Edmands, dau. of Francis O. and Hannah B., b. at 
Oxford, Mass. 

Charles Briggs b. 13 June 1849; m - 5 May l8 ^8, Fannie H. 
Parent, dau. of Leander and Angeline. 

Frederick Alton b. 10 March 1852; m. 24 Oct. 1877, Lillie 
M., dau. of Rockwell and Mary Ann (Stevens) Wilson. He is 
cashier of a bank at Northampton, Mass., and has ch., Bertha 
May and Frederick Wilson. 

Louise M. b. about 1853; m. in Boston 31 July 1883, David 
McGuire. She was an adopted daughter, child of Robert and 
Eliza Kearney, adopted 4 May 1861. 

102 

George Southard Macomber (Ebenezer 8 , George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in New Salem, Mass., 18 Oct. 1819, 
married, Aug. 1845, Fanny, dau. of Stephen Van Rensselaer and 
Lucretia (Wattles) Stewart. He died in Melrose, Mass., 1 Jan. 
1866. He was a physician and practiced at Watertown, N. Y. 
Children, besides two that died in infancy : 

Isabel b. at Greenfield, Mass., 26 Oct. 1850; m. 8 Oct. 1873, 
George B. Montgomery and has two daughters. Rochester, N. Y. 

Lillias b. at Watertown, N. Y., 10 Feb. 1854; m. 26 Sept. 
1878, Henry S. Farnum. Lives at Uxbridge, Mass., and has 
children: Leroy Southard Farnum, b. 7 May 1880; Llewellyn 
Gray Farnum, b. 5 Dec. 1884. 

103 

Amos Macomber (Ichabod , Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born 10 Sept. 18 12 at Milton, Mass, married 6 
Nov. 1842, Sarah dau. of Robert and Jane (Plaisted) McGooch 
of South Berwick, Me., and had children born in Dedham, Mass. 
He died at Hyde Park, Mass., 12 May 1880. She d. at Hyde 
Park 24 Feb. 1897, aged 82-7-28. 

Sarah A. b. 14 March 1844; m. 20 Jan. 1864, Oliver Lowell 
of Yarmouth, Mass. 

Worthy b. 24 July 1847. 

John L. b. 15 Sept. 1850; d. 20 June 1858. 

Harriet b. 14 Nov. 1854. 



68 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

103 a. 

George Macomber (Ichabod 6 , Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 

John 2 , John 1 ), born in Dedham, Mass. ; married Joanna 

W. dishing, and lived in Charlestown, Mass. Children as gath- 
ered from public records : 

Hattie E. b. about 1849; m - x ^ Nov. 1892, William H. Smith, 
Jr., in Boston. 

George Wilder b. 1840; m. at Newburyport, 4 Sept. 

1862, Sarah Ellen Wallace Barlow, dau. of James R. and Emme- 
line, b. at Newburyport. He was then a mariner. 

Anna C. b. 1846; m. 20 June 1865, Isaiah S. Leach. 

Francis H. b. at Charlestown 7 April 1859; m. 9 April 1882 
Mary E. Reagan. 

Joseph Warren b. 9 March 1852; m. (1) Lottie P., who d. 7 
Aug. 1875, a fe eCl 2 ° years 21 days; (2) 26 April 1877, Lucy J. 
Farrington, dau. of Moses and Sarah Nash. Second marriage of 
both. Son by first marriage, Warren W. died 6 July 1877, aged 
1-11-2. Joseph W. d. 4 Sept. 1906, aged 49-5-27. 

Lucy Ellen b. at Charlestown 24 Aug. i860. 

William Edwin b. at Charlestown 30 Aug. 1856; m. at Chel- 
sea 24 April 1877, Ella E. Knight, dau. of George and Mary A., 
b. in Boston. She d. 12 July 1884, aged 25 years. He m. (2) 10 
Feb. 1887, Jessie S. Dickinson, dau. of John and Jane, b. in 
England. 

103 b. 

Nelson H. Macomber (Ichabod , Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Dedham, Mass., 1828, mar- 
ried, 8 Jan. 1852, Mary Ann Gardner, dau. of Cushing and Deb- 
orah (Hathaway) Gardner of Hingham, Mass. They must have 
been divorced, for he was living with his wife Ann at Roseville, 
111., in 1870, and she married (2) at Bridgewater, Mass., 19 Oct. 
1865, Daniel Perkins Edson. Children by first marriage: 

Avis Theresa b. at Braintree 28 March 1853 ; m. 13 June 1876, 
John Edwin Beals. 

Eugene J. b. at Braintree 21 Feb. i860; d. 14 May 1861. 

104 
Leander Macomber (Ard 6 , Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Middleborough, Mass., 2 May 1810, mar- 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 69 

riecl, 30 Feb. 1847, Lucinda Hamilton of Webster, Me. He died 
8 Nov. 1896 in Cambridge, Mass. 

Leander Madison A. b. 4 March 1847. Unm. 

Welthie L. b. 3 May 1852; m. A. B. Strauss of Boston. 

George A. b. 14 Dec. 1850; m. 25 Sept. 1889 at Lynn, Mass., 
Josephine Perkins, clau. of Joseph and Mary, of Boston, Mass. 

Hattie N. b. 11 Nov. 1857; m. 23 Nov. 1876 Frank G. Rowell 
of Monmouth, Me. 

Henry F. b. 12 July 1861 ; m. Agnes Reid. Jeweller at New 
London, Conn. 

105 

William A. Macomber (Ard 6 , Nathaniel 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born 9 May 1813 in Monmouth, Me., married 
Sarah P. Ballard. He died 23 Aug. i860. 

Ardelia L. b. 12 Jan. 185 1 ; d. 19 May 1853. 

Eugene William b. 7 Sept. 1852 ; d. 30 May 1853. 

Emma F. b. 8 March 1854; d. 19 Feb. 1890. 

Henrietta D. b. 28 March 1856; m. Rev. Charles W. Hill, 12 
Sept. 1878. 

105 a. 

George Macomber (Leonard", Ichabod 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John-, John 1 ), born in New Bedford, Mass., 3 April 1808, mar- 
ried, 29 Oct. 1839, Martha Dillingham Gibbs, dau. of Nathan B. 
and Salome D., born at North Sandwich, Mass., 20 March 1819. 
He died at Hyde Park, Mass., 1 Nov. 1871. She died 24 April 
1882 at Hyde Park. 

George Francis b. 23 Aug. 1840; d. 9 Sept. 1840. 

Henry Seymour b. 16 Jan. 1842; m. 19 May 1875, Fanny, dau. 
of Stephen and Margaret Perrin, aged 25. Ch., Henry, Percy, 
Alice, Lowell, and Leonard. 

George b. 19 Oct. 1844; d. 29 Feb. 1848. 

Martha Gibbs b. 29 June 1847 > d. I0 March 1848. 

Alexander Gibbs b. 27 Dec. 1850; m. 8 Oct. 1873, Angie Stur- 
gis Hersey. Res., Jamaica Plains, Mass. Ch., Ethel Hersey b. 
27 Aug. 1874. Alexander Gibbs b. 7 May 1876. Walter Sturgis 
b. 15 Dec. 1878. Helen b. 5 Nov. 1883. George Cornelius b. 3 
Oct. 1886 ; d. 18 April 1887. 



yO MA COMBER GENEALOGY 

106 
Francis Macomber (James 6 , Elijah'', James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 3 April 1806, married, 2 June 1830, 

Mary, daughter of Dudley and Hannah ( ) Hathaway of 

Freetown, Mass. She was born 16 April 1810, and died 16 Jan. 
1874. He died 16 Feb. 1844. 

Bradford W., died 12 Nov. 1888, aged about 60 years, 
Unm 

6ch. 



Mary Ann b. 28 Aug. 1832; m. George W. Westgate. 



Hannah Frances b. 17 Jan. 1834; m. 24 July 1853, 
James B. Westgate. 

Henry b. 12 Dec. 1836; d. 7 Feb. 1877. Unm. 
141. James H. b. 12 Aug. 1838; m. Lydia M. French, 6 Mar. 
1864. 

John W. b. Dec. 1840; m. Jennie M. Harrison of New 
Bedford; d. s. p. at Providence, R. I. 11 Oct. 1871. 

Nathaniel Spencer b. 14 July 1841 ; m. Susan B. Cook, 
dau. of David W. B. and Amelia I). (Jackson) Cook, born 17 
Feb. 1844. One dau., Lilly B., b. 20 Sept. 1864, m. 24 March 
1886, Charles H. Dean, and has two ch. Taunton, Mass. Mrs. 
Susan B. (Cook) Macomber m. 15 March 1886, Seth M. Pres- 

brey. 

George French b. 21 Aug. 1844; d. 16 April 1896 at 

Providence, R. I. ; m. 7 Aug. 1867, Charlotte Alice, dau. of Leon- 
ard D. and Charlotte N. (George) Staples of Attleboro, born 26 
March 1848. Lives in Middleboro. One son, Franklin Forrest, 
b. 5 Sept. 1869, d. 14 April 1898. 

107 
Enoch Macomber (James , Elijah", James 4 , John 8 , John-, 
John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 24 Aug. 1807, married, 12 Jan. 
1832, Matilda, dau. of Benjamin and Thankful Norcut of Berk- 
ley, Mass., who died 4 Nov. 1859, aged 46 years. He m. (2) 27 
July 1862, in New Bedford, Joanna, dau. of James Harrington, 
who died 1 May 1868. He m. (3) 17 Oct. 1869, Mrs. Sarah 
Mitchell. He died in Taunton 25 Jan. 1878. 

Benjamin F. b. 12 Dec. 1835; d. 21 Oct. 1857. Unm. 

Sarah E. b. 20 March 1837; m. 1 March 1857, George F. Gid- 
ley, who was b. 12 April 1832 and d. 17 March 1884. Two ch. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 7 1 

George H. b. 12 Sept. 1841 ; d. 27 June 1862. Unm. 

Edward C. b. 31 March 1843; m - l 4 Feb. 1867, Sarah E. Ross, 
dau. of Manuel and Abbie P. Lives at New Bedford. Two 
eh., Charles F. b. 14 April 1869, and Ella M. b. 10 April 1876, 
who m. 14 Jan. 1897, Geo. F. Gray, Jr., at New Bedford. 

William A. b. 2 Aug. 1845; d - 2 9 J ui y lg 6i. 

Ellen W. b. 22 Dec. 185 1 ; d. 24 Dec. 1856. 

Charles E. b. 27 Feb. 1854; m. May 1886, Mary A. Clymonte. 
Lives in South Boston. One ch., William, b. about 1887. 

108 

Spencer Macomber (James 6 , Elijah" 1 , James 4 , John 8 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 14 March 181 1, married, 15 Oct. 1835, 
Lydia, dau. of Adam and Lucy (Borden) Borden of Fall River, 
Mass. He died 17 July 1886. She died at Fall River 10 Aug. 
1885. Three children : 

Sarah Amanda b. 21 Jan. 1845; m - 2 ° Nov - I 864» Erastus M. 
Brownell, b. 9 June 1840. Lives at Fall River, Mass. 2 ch. 

James Spencer b. 22 Dec. 1842 ; m. 20 Sept. 1870 Sophia Bige- 
low of Fall River, dau. of Lucius and Ruth, and lives there. One 
ch., Emma Spencer, b. 15 Feb. 1873, who m. (1) 29 March 1893, 
Everett Gifford, (2) Frederick Freelove. 

Jane b. 10 Nov. 1852; lives at Fall River. Unm. 

109 

Nathaniel Macomber (James , Elijah 5 , James 4 , John 3 , John-, 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 23 Oct. 1812, married, 15 Oct. 1844, 
Julia, dau. of Isaac and Sarah Briggs of Berkley, Mass., born 15 
Oct. 1827. He died about 1856, and she married (2) B. F. Dean 
and lives in Berkley. 

Julia A. b. 4 Dec. 1844; m. 28 March 1863, Wm. Parry; 
d. s. p. Sept. 1867. 

142. Frederick b. 4 March 1847; m - Emeline French, (2) 
Lizzie Norcutt. 

143. William Henry b. 9 March 1849; m - Etta Haskell, 18 
June 1869. 

Edwin O. b. 26 March 1851 ; m. Mary McCaffery, Brock- 
ton, Mass. Ch., Jennie May, Clarence, Edwin and Katie. 



72 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sarah M. b. 24 Jan. 1853; m - J 8 J an - l &7 2 Edgar A. 
Carpenter. Dau., Alice Carpenter b. 26 Oct. 1872, m. 11 Nov. 
1891, Orville Macomber, son of Calvin T. and Eliza J. (Shurtleff) 
Macomber of Middleboro, b. 13 July 1862. 

no 

Zacheus Macomber (James 6 , Elijah'. James 4 , John 3 , John 1 ', 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 23 May 1814, married, 1837, Almyra G., 
dau. of Benjamin and Lois (Holloway) Parish of Lakeville, born 
20 Oct. 181 5. He was a blacksmith in Taunton and Norton, 
Mass. Enlisted in Co. F, 4th M. \ . M.. and died in military ser- 
vice in the Civil War, 24 Jan. 1863. 

144. James Otis b. 20 Sept. 1838; m. Mary Elizabeth Elliott. 
Emeline Esther b. 6 Sept. 1840; d. 16 June 1846. 
Charles Henry b. 2^ Sept. 1842; d. 28 June 1846. 
Almyra Ellen b. 14 March 1848; d. 11 June 1851. 
Harriet Isabel b. 6 May 1850; m. 3 April 1870, John F. 

Peterson of Nova Scotia. He d. s. p. in Texas. She lives in 
Brockton. 

Angenette Ganoe b. 17 Oct. 1855; m. Charles Briggs of 
Brockton; d. 28 April 1897. Two ch. 

in 

William C. Macomber (James 6 , Elijah", James 4 , John 3 , John-, 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 20 June 1816, married, 30 Nov. 1837, 
Sarah A. Briggs of Berkley, dau. of Isaac and Sarah. She, born 
2 April 1819, died 12 Oct. 1896. He died 13 April 1880. One ch. 

145. Enoch b. 9 Sept. 1840; m. Maria Dean, 16 Dec. 1866. 

112 

Elias Macomber (James 6 , Elijah 5 , James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , 
John 1 ), born in Taunton 31 May 1820, married, (1) 1845, Thank- 
ful Norcut of Berkley, who died April 1858, aged 36, (2) 26 April 
1873, Cordelia M.. widow of John J. Hall and dau. of James and 
Eliza (Hammond) Frasier of Raynham, Mass. Six children 
by first marriage. 

Lucinda b. 2 June 1845 > m - (0 22 J an - 1869, Henry W. 
Hathaway of Fall River, who d. 16 June 1885, (2) 24 June 1892, 
Henry Watson of Taunton. He d. 20 Aug. 1892. Six ch., by 
first marriage. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY J7> 

Horace N. b. 4 May 1847 ; m - Emma Cahoon, b. 5 Aug-. 
1849. Lives at Berkley, Mass. No ch. 

146. Elias Wilson b. 7 May 1849; m - Betsey H. Lovell, 3 
Aug. 1874. 

147. Benjamin H. b. 20 Sept. 185 1 ; m. Mary E. Hall, (2) 
Lena C. Gaunnons. 

Harriet b. 1853; m. 1876, George Ramsey; d. 1879. 
Two ch. 

Elijah Alonzo b. 1855. Unm. Last heard of at 
Hyannis, Mass. 

113 

Stephen F. Macomber (Stephen 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 11 May 1827, married (1)6 
Nov. 1854, at Cambridge, Me., Mary M., daughter of Ephraim 
and Mehitable (Hatch) Littlefield, who was born 28 Jan. 1835, 
and died 25 July 1879, at Saco, Me. He married (2) 6 Nov. 
1 88 1, Lizzie E. Gray, daughter of Lemuel Gray, born in Bristol, 
Me., 16 Sept. 1843. She died at North Adams, Mass., 11 March 
1897. He is a machinist by trade and has lived most of his life 
in Saco, Me. One son by first marriage : 

Frank Eugene b. at Cambridge, Me., 22 July 1856; m. at 
Dover, N. H. 2 July 1879, Lilian Rose, dau. of Lewis Ridlon of 
Biddeford, Me. She was born in Kennebunkport, Me., 2 Oct. 
1859, and died at North Adams, Mass., 11 Feb. 1890. He m. (2) 
Mausa Goodrich. He is a machinist and musician at Hartford, 
Conn. Two sons, Charles Sumner b. in Saco, Me., 9 Sept. 1880, 
and Harry Edward b. 10 Aug. 1882, who died 22 Dec. 1900. 

114 
George Ricker Macomber (Stephen, Elijah 3 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John-, John 1 ), born at Durham, Me., 16 Dec. 1829, married, 1 
Jan i860, Jerusha D., dau. of Alanson D. and Polly (Allen) 
Packard, born in Parkman, Me., 14 May 1836. She died at Cam- 
bridge, Me., July 1871. Lives at Saco, Me. 

148. George Elwin b. 15 Nov. i860; m. Adelaide G. Hanson. 

149. Hira Alton b. 4 Dec. 1862 ; m. Georgie Annie Nutter. 

ii5 
Horatio N. Macomber (Stephen 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 

John 2 , John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 12 June 1833, married, 9 

July 1859, Sarah Watson, who was born in Cambridge, Me., 11 



74 MA COMBER GENEALOGY 

Aug. 1834. He died at Lynn, Mass., 23 Nov. 1893. Four 
children : 

Charles Willard b. in Lynn 29 March 1861 ; m. at Lynn, 1 
May 1884, Frances Ella Bush, b. at Lower Granville, Nova Sco- 
tia, 25 Sept. 1862. Two ch., b. in Lynn, Sarah May b. 29 Dec. 
1885, and Laura Mildred, b. 26 Jan. 1891. 

Walter Herbert b. in Lynn 5 Dec. 1865; m. 19 Jan. 1887, at 
Lynn, Emma Dwinells Vining, b. in Lynn 26 June 1867, dau. of 
John D. and Martha A. 

Edwin Clayton b. in Lynn, 9 July 1868 ; m. 24 Jan. 1893, 
Lilla A. Shackford. 

Fred Erwin b. 10 Feb. 1876; m. 17 Oct. 1900, Florence S. Wil- 
son, dau. of Carlo C. and Charlotte (Noyes). 

116 

Eliza J. Macomber ( Stephen" , Elijah'', Joseph 4 , John 3 , John-, 
John 1 ), born in Parkman, Me., 21 June 1840; married, 24 Oct. 
1858, Mark L. Littlefield, born in Harmony. Me., 2 May 1837, 
Four children, no grandchildren. 

Edwin L. Littlefield b. 24 Oct. 1858; m. Lilian A. Woodard, 
5 Oct. 1884. 

Mary E. Littlefield b. 23 Sept. 1863; d. 11 Jan. 1890, at 
Saco, Me. 

Charles B. Littlefield b. 4 Feb. 1869; m. Emma Tate of 
Biddeford. 

Alfreda A. Littlefield b. 7 Dec. 1874; m. 20 Sept. 1893, 
Shirley B. Stone of Saco. 

117 

Esther Parthexia Macomber (Stephen 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , 
John' 1 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Parkman, Me., 2 Feb. 1843, mar- 
ried John P. Langworthy of Lynn, Mass. Children : 

Charles Erwin b. 5 Nov. 1869; d. 30 Oct. 1871. 

Alice Esther b. 25 Oct. 1873; d. 14 Feb. 1877. 

Florence Ethel b. 16 Oct. 1875. 

Laura May b. 2j Oct. 1879. 

Frank Herbert b. 8 Dec. 1881. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



75 



118 

Julia Ann Macomber (Stephen 15 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Parkman, Maine, 19 Aug. 1845; married 
Stedman Hatch of Harmony, Me., 16 Oct. i860. He was born 
11 July 1836. Children: 

Lilian Adell b. 1 March 1862 ; d. 6 June 1903 ; m. 2 July 1884, 
Charles E. Cooley. No ch. 

Leander Willard b. 26 Oct. 1864; d. 10 March 1874. 

Ira Selden b. 4 April 1867; in. 22 June 1896, Ida Elizabeth 
Bowman. 

Alice Ella b. 13 July 1869. 

Sarah Mabel b. 9 Feb. 1872; m. 24 Dec. 1890 S. M. Reed. 
No ch. 

Ita Florence b. 12 May 1876. 

Alfreda Ann b. 10 Aug. 1878. 

119 

Elmer Allen Macomber (Stephen 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John-, John 1 ), born in Parkman, Me., 25 Jan. 1864; married, 24 
Dec. 1889, Etta H. Harvey at Stoneham, Mass. She was born at 
Chiverie, Nova Scotia, 1 March 1867. Three children, al 1 born 
in Nashua, N. H., where he resides. 

Clara Edna b. 28 March 1891. 

Gertrude Harvey b. 16 Sept. 1894. 

George Humphrey b. 28 Nov. 1896. 

120 

William B. Macomber (Adams 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John-, John 1 ), born at Parkman, Me., 19 Nov. 1833, went West 
with his parents and married, 15 Sept. 1861, at Goshen, Ind., 
Belinda Hess, born 12 Sept. 1838, in Goshen. Seven children: 

Charles Adams b. in New Prairie, Ind., 8 July 1862; m. at 
West Branch, Iowa, 11 March 1886, Mary Emma Tripp, b. in 
Bremen, Ind., 29 May 1883. Dau., Sarah Belinda, b. in Bremen 
17 Jan. 1887. 

Tremella J. b. in Goshen, Ind., 14 Dec. 1863 ; m. 26 June 1884, 
at Bremen, Ind., Kendall E. West b. in Logansport, Ind., 11 April 
1852, and d. 24 June 1897, at Kokomo, Ind. Ch., Win. Harrison 
West b. in Blufton, Ind., 6 Oct. 1887, and Kendall Everett W r est, 
b. 28 Oct. 1897. 



?6 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Mary Ellen b. in Goshen, Ind., 24 March 1866: m. Oct. 1891, 
Edward Laudeman, b. at Bremen, Ind., 12 May 1867. 

Julia Etta b. in Bremen, Ind., 27 April 1868; in. 2 March 
1890, Henry Lincoln Laudeman, b. in Bremen, Ind., 11 Jan. 1865. 

Ira Leonard b. in Bremen, Ind., 14 May 1871. 

Lewis Edwix 1). in Bremen 7 Oct. 1875; m. 6 Dec. 1899, Net- 
tie E. Zimmer, b. at Bremen 26 July 1880. Ch., Edgar Raymond 
b. 7 Feb. 1901. 

Bessie Catherine b. in Bremen 3 Nov. 1877. 

121 

Rev. Hiram J. Macomber (Adams'', Elijah"', Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John-', John 1 ), born at Parkman, Me., 14 June 1839, graduated at 
Hillsdale College, Mich., in 1863. He married, 31 Aug. 1865, 
Eliza C. Messick, born in Harrisonberg, Va., 26 Jan. 1839. He 
taught school several years. He was ordained as a Congrega- 
tional minister at Stulberg, Neb., 31 Oct. 1887, and preached for 
a number of years. He was a man of character and ability. 
He died at Denmark, Iowa, 25 March 1897. 

Charles Ward b. in Greenville, Ohio, 9 June 1868; m. 24 Aug. 
1898, Miss Josephine C. Shephard of Wever, Iowa, b. 2 Jan. 1877. 
He is Professor of Mathematics in the Normal School at Cheney, 
Wash. A.B. and A.M. Hillsdale College. Ch., Kathryn Lisle b. 
27 Jan. 1902 at Anamora, Iowa, and Dixon Shephard b. 27 Nov. 
1803, at Cheney, Wash. 

Edwin Jewett b. in Bremen, Ind., 11 May 1876; d. 17 Aug. 
1878. 

Lumen Howard b. at Bremen, Ind., 24 Nov. 1880. 

122 

John L. Macomber (Adams 6 , Elijah^, Joseph 4 , John 3 , John-, 
John 1 ), born at Bremen, Ind., 30 May 1843, married, 6 March, 
1870, at Bremen, Deborah Tripp, born at Salem, Ohio, 16 July 
1843. She died at Rago, Kansas, 27 Aug. 1883. He married, (2) 
18 Dec. 1884, Mrs. Mary J. (Young) Morgan, born in Stanford, 
Ky., 7 March 1846. He lives at Rago, Kansas. Five children 
by first marriage and one by second. 

Minnie Belle b. in Goshen, Ind., 23 Dec. 1870; m. 28 Feb. 
1885, Wm. E. Owens, at Rago, Kansas. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY JJ 

Elijah Sherman b. in Waterford, Ind., 13 Dec. 1872; d. 14 
Oct. 1874. 

George Washington b. in Kinsley, Kansas, 30 May 1880. 
Betsey Corena b. in Bremen, Ind., 25 Jan. 1876. 
Hiram Oliver b. in Rago, Kansas, 16 July 1883. 
Leonard Lincoln b. in Rago, Kansas, 2 Sept. 1886. 

123 

Zebina Alonzo Macomber (Adams 6 , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born at Harrison, 111., 3 March 1848, married, (1) 
5 Sept. 1867, at Plymouth, Ind., Rebecca Price of Bremen, Ind., 
born 26 June 1850. Divorced 4 April 1872. He married (2) 10 
Oct. 1875, Charlotte E. Sibert, born in Canton, Stark Co., Ohio, 
22 March 1854. She died 10 May 1884. He married, (3) 30 
May 1888 Julia A. Funk, born in Greentop, Mo., 2.^ July 1856. 
He lives in Queen City, Schuyler Co., Mo. One child by first 
marriage. 

William Henry b. in Bremen, Ind., 15 March 1868. He is 
married and lives at Hood River, Oregon. 

Children by second marriage : 

Rutherford Baxter b. at Bremen, Ind., 13 Sept. 1876. He 
is married and lives at Winona, North Dakota. 

Howard Edlon b. in Kinsley, Edwards Co., Kansas, 13 Sept. 
1878. 

Edwin Ernest b. in Kinsley, 4 March 1881 ; d. 31 Oct. 1882. 

Estella Pearl b. in Blue Ridge, Harrison Co., Mo., 11 Dec. 
1883; d. 11 Aug. 1884. 

Children by third marriage : 

John Andrew b. in Queen City, 19 July 1889. 

Zebina Adams b. 5 April 1891. 

George Hiram b. 22 June 1893. 

Joseph Hugh b. 31 Dec. 1894. 

Gleen Briggs b. 20 April 1898. 

Betsey Angeline b. 29 Jan. 1902. 

124 
Goerge L. Macomber (Leonard , Elijah 5 , Joseph 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Durham, Me., 29 Nov. 1848, served in the 
Civil War and was educated at the Agricultural College at Orono, 



7& MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Me. He went to Minnesota and became a farmer and teacher, 
living in Windom, Minn. About 1901 he moved to Clarkston, 
Wash. He married, 23 Dec. 1880, at Redwood Falls, Minn., 
Annie Esther Thurston, born 1 Sept. 1859. Children : 

Ruth Lois b. 8 Feb. 1884; m. 26 Sept. 1905, Erastus F. Beck- 
ner. 

Minetta b. — April 1886. 

Gforge Edwards b. — Dec. 1887. 

John Stanley b. — Dec. 1889. d. May 1905. 

Mary b. Aug. 1891. 

Others. 

125 
John Macomber (John . John', Samuel 4 , Samuel 3 , John-. 
John 1 ), born in Rehoboth. Mass., 1814. married Mary dan. of 
Joseph Smith of Stoughton, and lived as a farmer in StouHiton 
Canton and Marlboro, Mass. He died in Marlboro 21 Jan. 1886. 
She was born 11 Feb. 1816 and died 5 Sept. 1863. 

Mary F. b. 1839; m. 26 Dec. i860. Daniel F. Simpson. 
Both deceased. 

150. Lorenzo S. b. Nov. 1842; m. 8 Aug. 1868, Abbie D. 
Hemmenway. Lives at North Platte, Neb. Has 7 sons and 1 
dan. 

151. Stephen D. b. 12 Feb. 1846; m. 25 April 1870, Emma 
Lincoln. 

Susan Maria b. 13 Jan. 1849; m. 20 Jan. 1867, William 
A. Lincoln. 

John S. b. Jan. 1852; d. 20 Oct. 1874. Lnm. 
Julia Smith b. 22 March 1855; m. 25 Sept. 1878, 
Charles Lincoln. 

Willard H. b. 26 Aug. 1858; d. 9 Aug. 1861. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 79 

EIGHTH GENERATION 

125 a. 

George A. Macomber (Philip A. 7 , Philip* 5 , Stephen 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 22 Nov. 1833; 
married, 4 Dec. 177 1, Elizabeth Scott, born 13 March 1853. He 
served in the Civil War in Co. G, 4th M. V. M., enlisting in 1861. 
Lives in Providence, R. I., an employe of the N. Y., N. H. & 
H. R. R. Ch. born in Providence : 

George W. b. 8 Sept. 1872. 

Walter S. b. 14 March 1877; m. 23 April 1897, Belle Dow of 
Lewiston, Me. No children. 

Leroy Augustus b. 4 Sept. 1878. 

Mary E. b. 22 Nov. 1881. 

126 

Philip Franklin Macomber (Philip A. 7 Philip", Stephen 5 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 29 
March 1835, married, 20 Aug - . 1855, Bessie Makepiece, born 8 
April 1837. She died 25 Dec. 1887. He lives at 9 West Britan- 
nia Street, Taunton. She was dau. of Sylvester and Parnie 
(Graves) Makepiece. 

Clinton Frank b. 30 March 1856; m. (1)6 Nov. 1872, Elnora 
Murry, dau. of Henry and Mary of Middleboro. Divorced. He 
m. (2) 1 Nov. 1882, Julia B. dau. of Wm. Perkins, b. in Sheffield, 
Eng., 14 Feb. 1864, d. 26 Jan. 1892. Lives at 91 Britannia 
Street, Taunton. Two children, Frank Clinton, b. 26 Feb. 
1873, who m. 25 March 1895, Ernestine A., dau. of Albert F. and 
Harriet A. Lawton of South Boston ; lives in Middleboro, Mass. 
Bessie Perkins b. 25 May 1885. 

Lillian A. b. 7 April 1859; m. 2j July 1873, John Albert 
North, b. 15 Sept. 1848. Lives at Nashua, N. H. 

Mina Ellsworth b. 12 Dec. 1861 ; m. 22 Nov. 1882, Frank 
James Triggs, b. 11 Aug. 1857. He is a dentist in Boston. 

127 

Seth C. Macomber (Philip A. 7 , Philip", Stephen 5 , Stephen 4 , 
Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 13 Sept. 1846, married, 
12 Dec. 1874, Emily W. Winslow of Brewster, Mass., dau. of 



80 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Nathan and Susannah. Lives at 187 County Street, Taunton, 
Mass. 

Harry Freeman b. 25 Dec. 1876. Civil engineer in Taunton. 

Archie Philip b. 27 Oct. 1883. 

128 

Alvah Page Macomber (Philip A. 7 , Philip , Stephen', 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John-, John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 30 
Jan. 1848, married, 15 Oct. 1873, Abby Mary, dau. of Thomas J. 
and Mary J. (Person) Brooks, born at Manchester 25 Xov. 1856. 
Lives at 31 Johnson Street, Taunton. 

Herbert Dcrant b. 6 April 1876; m. 6 Nov. 1900, Alice Lee 
Boardman of East Taunton. 

Mary Emma b. 26 June 1880. 

Sara j 1 Isabel b. 22 Aug. 1884. 

129 

Charles H. Macomber (Joseph Leonard 7 , Philip , Stephen 6 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John-, John 1 ), born at Taunton 8 Aug. 1838, 
married, 24 Feb. 1864, Susan P., dau. of William F. and Susan 
(Staples) Macomber, his cousin, born 28 .May 1837. Lives at 66 
School Street, Taunton. Health officer. 

Annie A. b. 8 Aug. 1867. School teacher in Taunton. 

Charles Lewis b. 5 March 1870; m. 4 Oct. 1891 Mary, dau. 
of George W. and Elnora E. (Woodbury) Mellon of Vermont. 
Lives at 158 Winthrop Street, Taunton. No children. 

130 

Edward F. Macomber (Joseph Leonard 7 , Philip , Stephen", 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 4 Nov. 1839, 
married, 23 March 1870, Fannie K., dau. of Charles and Lydia 
(Dean) Howland, aged 24. He is janitor of the Cohannet School, 
Taunton. 

Chester Willis b. 15 June 1871 ; m. 11 Aug. 1897 Lillian B. 
dau. of William B. and Nora Howe of Tremont, Mass. Lives at 

81 County Street, Taunton. 

Edith Frances b. 8 July 1875. Stenographer. Lives at 16 
Johnson Street, Taunton. 

Ruth Lb. 11 Dec. 1876. Stenographer. Lives at 16 Johnson 
Street. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 8l 

131 

James Otis Macomber (William F. 7 , Philip 6 , Stephen 5 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 2 Dec. 1842, 
married (1) 2 July 1865 Martha M., dau. of Samuel S. and 
Philena L. (Keene) Hewlett. She, born 18 Oct. 1848, died 24 
Oct. 1873. He married (2) 12 Sept. 1877, Mary J., dau. of John 
and Jane (Dapson) Burton of England, born 5 May 1858. 
Farmer. Lives at 169 County Street, Taunton, Mass. Children 
by first marriage: 

Mattie Isabel b. 16 Nov. 1867; m. (1) 24 Aug. 1886, Mar- 
shall, son of Marshall and Emeline (Macomber) Briggs. 
Divorced. One ch., Esther Madeline Briggs b. 26 Dec. 1886. 
She m. (2) Eugene Kelly. Lives in Attleboro, Mass. 

Eudora Winifred b. 20 Dec. 1869; m. 7 April 1891 Frank W. 
Root, b. 14 Nov. 1868. 

Children by second marriage: 

Frank Otis b. 25 Feb. 1878. 

Ralph Elton b. 14 Oct. 1885. 

132 

Henry Bradford Macomber (William F. 7 , Philip 6 , Stephen 5 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 2 Oct. 1844, 
married, 24 May 1865, Jemima F., dau. of Matthew and Keziah 
(Booth) Woodward of England, born 4 May 1846. Lives at 134 
County Street, Taunton, Mass. 

William Clifton b. 26 Dec. 1868; d. 12 July 1872. 

Grace C. A. b. 24 March 1873 ; d. 22 June 1877. 

Arthur Henry b. 27 April 1881 ; lives with his father. 

133 

Horatio Page Macomber (William F. 7 , Philip 6 , Stephen 5 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in' Taunton 9 Aug. 1846, 
married (1) 31 Dec. 1865 Annette M., dau. of Dudley and Han- 
nah (Chandler) Hathaway. She, born 22 Jan. 1847, died IO Dec - 
1876. He married (2)6 Dec. 1877, Ida Jane Conehoven, born 26 
Jan. 1855. Lives at 37 Johnson Street, Taunton. 

Child by first marriage : 

William Frederick b. 21 July 1866; d. 29 Sept. 1897. 



82 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Children by second marriage : 
Grace Lydia b. ii Oct. 1886. 
Nellie Mabel b. 13 May 1889. 
Adelbert Paige b. 10 Nov. 1891. 
Gladys Emma b. 4 June 1899. 

134 

Marcus Clifford Macomber (William F. 7 , Philip", Stephen 5 , 
Stephen 4 , Thomas 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton 28 Aug. 1852, 
married (1) 30 Sept. 1875,, Julia F. Kenefick, dau. of John and 
Bridget, aged 23, who died 20 Oct. 1881, aged 29 years; (2) 9 
July 1885, Mary A. D. Mc Adams, dau. of David and Mary, born 
in Scotland 21 Dec. 1855. 

Susan Frances b. 25 June 1877; m. 22 Oct. 1897, James W. 
Nelson. 

Wm. Clifford b. 29 Nov. 1879; d. 13 July 1880. 

Clifford Munroe b. 15 April 1889. 

Lester Roy b. 29 Sept. 1892. 

Alfred Russell b. 19 Jan. 1895. 

134 a. 

Norman Mansfield Macomber (William C. 7 , Southworth'\ 
Job"', Nathaniel 4 , John'', John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bowdoinham, 
Me., 18 Oct. 1840, married, 10 Sept. 1862, Adeline Simmonds 
Thurston, dau. of Henry and Drusilla E. (Wedgwood) Thurs- 
ton, born 10 Feb. 1838. He died at Beaver Falls, Pa., 15 Sept. 
1881. 

Wilman Mansfield b. 10 April 1867 ; m. 24 Dec. 1889, Lutie 
M. Hanson of Maiden, Mass. Had son, Linwood Hanson, b. 25 
Jan. 1891, who d. 14 April 1893. R es > Maiden, Mass. 

Norman Bertram b. 30 Nov. 1876; m. 24 Dec. 1901, Jeannette 
Blanche Eaton of Conway, N. H. Had son, Bertram Eaton, b. 
5 March 1904, who d. the next day. Res., Conway, N. H. 

135 
Converse O. Macomber (Uriel H. 7 , Ebenezer 6 , Job 5 , Nathan- 
iel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Damariscotta, Me., 8 Aug. 
1828, married (1)2 June 1840, Mary J. Wardwell, who died 8 
May 1843, ( 2 ) l 3 Mar. 1858 Hester Maria Lewis, dau. of Nathan 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 83 

and Harriet P. They were married by Rev. Samuel Macomber. 
He died in Belfast, Me., 7 Nov. 1892. She died 23 April 1898, 
aged 62 years. Child by first marriage: 

Ellen M. b. 4 July 1841 ; m. 12 Feb. 1870 Wm. G. Kneeland. 

Children by second marriage: 

Fannie T. b. 20 Dec. 1858. 

Edgar Lewis b. 10 Jan. 1861 ; m. Nellie Scott. Belfast. 

Alice F. b. 5 Feb. 1863. 

Winfield b. 14 Sept. 1865. 

Wilbur A. b. 3 Jan. 1868; m. 20 Dec. 1893, Gertrude D. 
Stearns, Belfast. 

136 

Otis Macomber (Uriel H. 7 , Ebenezer 6 , Job 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Bristol, Me., 6 June 1831, married, 5 April 
1853, Mary Adell Perkins at Bluehill, Me. He died in active ser- 
vice in the Union Army at Belle Plain, Va., 15 March 1863. 
Children : 

Harvey Ward b. at Bucksport, Me., 18 May 1855. 

Ernestine Adell b. at Bluehill, Me., 15 Nov. 1857. 

Grace Darling b. at Penobscot, Me., 8 Feb. 1859. 

Maria Otis b. at Bluehill, Me., 28 March 1861. 

137 

George Ellison Macomber (George W. 7 , George", George 5 , 
Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 6 June 1853, married, 24 
Jan. 1877, Sarah, dau. of Hiram and Elmira (Mills) Johnson. 
Lives at Augusta, Me. Has served in the Legislature. He is a 
general insurance agent. 

Alice Hamlen b. 17 March 1878; m. 4 Oct. 1906, Royal 
Henry Bodwell. 

Annie Johnson b. 4 Dec. 1882; m. 6 June 1905, Guy Patter- 
son Gannett. 

138 
Henry Kirke Macomber (Kingsley Williams 7 , Ebenezer", 
George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 4 July 1843, mar- 
ried, 7 June 1870, Amelia C, dau. of Abraham and Amelia Col- 
lerd of Hackensack, N. J. Served in the Civil War in the 2 I 



84 .MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Iowa Cavalry. He is a practicing physician at Pasadena, Cal. 
Children : 

Henry Jewell b. 17 March 1871. 

Abraham Kingsley b. 7 March 1875. 

Leroy Alexander b. 22 Oct. 1878. 

139 

John Kingsley Macomber (Kingsley Williams 7 , Ebenezer 6 , 
George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) born 2 Feb. 1849 in 
Northampton, Mass., went to Iowa with his father. Graduated 
at the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, at Ames, 
Iowa, in 1872. Studied at the Institute of Technology, Boston, 
and at Cornell University, where he was Professor of Physics and 
Librarian six years. He has practiced law in Des Moines, Iowa, 
since 1883. Published in 1876 a series of lectures on "Matter 
and Force." He married, 22 Feb. 1777, Mattie Atwood Locke, 
born at Union, N. Y., 2 Dec. 1853, dau. of James B. and Elsie 
Louise (Walley) Locke. 

Elsie Welch b. 19 April 1878. 

Mattie Watrous b. 12 May 1879; d. 15 July 1879. 

Jay Kingsley b. 10 Dec. 1882. 

Kate Locke b. 12 March 1884. 

James Locke b. 9 Feb. 1887. 

Sumner Cooley b. 29 July 1888. 

Arabella Alexander b. 9 Jan. 1890. 

Bertha Jewell b. 21 Sept. 1891. 

140 

Frank Jewell Macomber (Kingsley Williams 7 , Ebenezer 6 , 
George 5 , Nathaniel 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ) born 31 Jan. 1853, 
graduated at the State College at Ames, Iowa, in 1875. He 
studied law at the State University at Iowa City and has prac- 
tised law at Lewis, Iowa. He married Clara Hill of Grinnell, 
Iowa. 

Williams Henry Hill b. 31 July 1885. 

Frank Jewell b. 23 Dec. 1886. 

Arabella b. 29 Dec. 1890. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 85 

141 

James H. Macomber (Francis 7 , James 6 , Elijah 5 , James 4 John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 12 Aug. 1838, married, 6 
March 1864, Lydia M., daughter of Harrison and Maria 
(Staples) French, born 4 April 1848. They live at Berkley, 
Mass. 

Harry Ellsworth b. 1 June 1871 ; d. 5 Sept. 1871. 

Charles H. b. 6 Aug. 1872; m. 13 Dec. 1894, Florence, dau. 
of Thomas and Carrie (Cummings) Brooks of Berkley, b. 24 
March 1874. 

Clara b. 18 Jan. 1877; m. 23 June 1895, Elmer Pool. Son, 
Percy Stirling Pool, b. 8 Aug. 1898. 

142 

Frederick Macomber (Nathaniel 7 , James 6 , Elijah 5 , James 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 4 March 1847, 
married (1) 16 June 1872, Emeline, dau. of Timothy E. and Car- 
oline (Hall) French. She was born 20 March 1852, and died 10 
July 1880. He married (2) 6 Oct. 1893 Lizzie, dau. of Charles 
and Betsey (Staples) Norcutt, born 9 Sept. 1864. They live in 
Berkley, Mass. 

Carrie Lilian b. 6 Jan. 1873 ; m. 23 Sept. 1891 Harry E. How- 
land of Berkley, b. 11 Jan. 1869. 3 ch. 

Flora Warren b. 18 March 1875; m. 15 Jan. 1892 Edward L. 
Smith of Berkley b. 16 July i860. 2 ch. 

Clifford Edwin b. 20 Feb. 1877; m. 24 Dec. 1900 Emma, dau. 
of Albert and Mary (Wheeler) Cummings. 

Joseph Leland b. 20 Nov. 1878. 

Eugene Foster b. 6 July 1880; m. 6 Nov. 1900, Alice May, 
dau. of Franklin B. and Annie H. (Richmond) Terry, b. 14 Jan. 
1881. Son, Raymond Foster, b. 7 April 1901. 

Children by second marriage : 

Alice Gertrude b. 23 Oct. 1895. 

Clinton Edward b. 1 April 1897. 

Pearl Francis b. 2 July 1898 

Russell Elmore b. 25 Jan. 1901. 



86 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

143 

William Henry Macomber (Nathaniel 7 , James 6 , Elijah , 
James 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 9 March 
1849, married, 18 June 1869, Etta, dau. of Josiah and Susan 
(Pittsley) Haskell of Assonet, born 21 Oct. 1849. They live in 
Middleboro, Mass. 

Arthur H. b. 19 April 1870; m. 21 Sept. 1893, Anc e Rogers 
of Lakeville, Mass. 

Etta Mabel b. 19 March 1871 ; m. 30 May 1888, Charles F. 
Read of Taunton, Mass. 

Frederick b. 15 March 1873; d. 1 Sept. 1873. 

Julia b. 4 May 1875; d - 2 May 1877. 

Florence Gertrude b. 5 Jan. 1877; m. 17 Sept. 1897, Obed D. 
Allen of Bowen, Mass. 

Barzilla W. b. 12 Jan. 1879. 

Susan Emeline b. 18 Feb. 1881. 

Sarah Ruby b. 19 Nov. 1883. 

William Henry b. 7 April 1885. 

Bertha Frances b. 4 Dec. 1887. 

144 

James Otis Macomber (Zacheus 7 , James , Elijah 5 , James 4 , 
John 3 , John 1 ', John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 20 Sept. 1838, mar- 
ried Mary Elizabeth Elliott. Blacksmith, Brockton, Mass. 

William James b. 22 July 1862; m. 7 April 1892, Sadie H. 
Swift of Plymouth. Lives at Plymouth, Mass. Son, Benjamin 
Fessenden b. 9 Sept. 1893. 

Almira Esther b. 20 Oct. 1865 ; m. 21 May 1883, Arthur Pratt 
Packard of West Bridgewater, Mass., 5 ch. 

Florence Adelaide b. 12 Dec. 1870; m. 11 July 1889, Ells- 
worth Harris of Brockton, Mass. 2 ch. 

Ida Ella b. 8 Dec. 1874; m. 1 Sept. 1893, Albert Melville 
Keyes. 2 ch. 

Hattie Gertrude b. 10 Feb. 1877; m. 25 Dec. 1894 George 
Wilfred Leonard. 2 ch. 

Charles Henry b. 28 Aug. 1878. 

145 
Enoch Macomber (William 7 , James , Elijah"', James 4 , John 3 , 
John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 9 Sept. 1840, married, 16 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 87 

Dec. 1866, Maria, dau. of Thomas Dean of Berkley, Mass., born 
17 June 1849. He died 17 Dec. 1880. 

Lelia M. b. 31 Dec. 1867; m. 24 Nov. 1887, Fred L. Williams, 
b. 30 July 1866. Brockton, Mass. 1 ch. 

Annie A. b. 9 March 1869; m. 28 Oct. 1896, Albert F. Talvey 
b. 22 April 1861. 2 ch. 

Roscoe b. 22 March 1875 '■> m - 2I March 1900, Marion Cairus, 
dau. of John and Maria of Berkley, b. 13 Jan. 1875. 

Horace b. 2 Sept. 1877. Berkley, Mass. 

146 

Elias Wilson Macomber (Elias 7 , James 6 , Elijah 3 , James 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 7 May 1849, mar ~ 
ried, 3 Aug. 1874, at Providence, R. I., Betsey H. Lovell of 
Bridgewater, Mass., dau. of Amaziah and Louisa (Plumb) 
Lovell, born 19 Dec. 1856. They live at Bridgewater, Mass. 

William H. b. 16 June 1880. 

Harriet Louise b. 13 April 1884. 

Harry W. b. 7 Nov. 1890. 

Alfred H. b. 5 Feb. 1893. 

Eliza J. b. 3 Oct. 1896. 

Benjamin C. b. 3 March 1898. 

147 

Benjamin H. Macomber (Elias 7 , James 6 , Elijah 5 , James 4 , 
John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 20 Sept. 1851, mar- 
ried, (1)7 July 1870, Mary E., dau. of John J. and Cordelia M. 
(Frasier) Hall; (2) 12 Sept. 1898, Lena C, dau. of Samuel and 
Caroline F. (Tabor) Kenerson and widow of Gaunnons. 

Children by first marriage: 

Viola Pearl b. 6 Aug. 1878 ; m. 23 Aug. 1893, Albert Presbrey 
Goff of Taunton. 1 ch. 

Charles Alton b. 31 Aug. 1881. 

Bertha Maria b. 19 Feb. 1883. 

Child by second marriage : 

Horace Alonzo b. 23 Jan. 1900. 



88 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

I48 

George Elvvin Macomber (George Ricker 7 , Stephen 6 , Elijah 5 , 
Joseph 4 , John 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 15 Nov. i860, married, 19 
Sept. 1889, at Saco, Me., Adelaide G. Hanson, born at Saco 6 
July 1863. Children born at Saco. 

Ruth Ellen b. 26 July 1891. 

Carl Alton b. 13 Oct. 1892. 

Leon Edward b. 4 March 1895. 

Marion Adelaide b. 17 Nov. 1898. 

149 

Hira Alton Macomber (George Ricker 7 , Stephen 6 , Elijah", 
Joseph 4 , John 3 , John-, John 1 ), born 4 Dec. 1862, married in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., 30 July 1893, Georgie Annie Nutter, born in Saco, 
Me., 16 Dec. 1861. Children born in Saco. He died in Saco, 16 
April 1906. 

Clara Maud b. 3 Sept. 1894. 

Ralph Earle b. 26 June 1897. 

151 

Stephen D. Macomber (John 7 , John 6 , John 5 , Samuel 4 , Sam- 
uel 3 , John 2 , John 1 ), born 12 Feb. 1846, married, 25 April 1870, 
Emma Lincoln, dau. of William P. and Jane. She was born in 
Union, Me., 13 June 1852. Lives in Marlboro, Mass. 

William S. b. in Canton, Mass., 11 March 1871 ; m. Isa M. 
Seaver of Northboro, Mass. Ch., Ethel, Bertha, and Cora. 

George E. b. in Taunton, Mass., 9 April 1873 ; d. at age of 4 
months. 

Julia E. b. in Marlboro 25 Feb. 1876; m. 2 Nov. 1896, Wm. 
Weagle. 

Sarah J. b. 13 Nov. 1878; m. 29 May 1897, Clarence A. Stev- 
ens of Marlboro. Ch., Gladys, Mildred, William, and Cora. 

Cora E. b. 4 Sept. 1880; m. 28 Nov. 1900, Emery E. Freeman 
of Rockland, Me. 

Fred E. b. 27 Feb. 1883 ; m. Josie Caldwell of Hudson, Mass. 
Ch., Marion and Charles. 

Mary E. b. 13 July 1885. 



William 5ltacomber of 5ttarsl)fiel6 



AND HIS DESCENDANTS 



"Will'm Maycumber, of Dorchester, cooper, is lycensed to dwell 
within this gov'ment, at Plymouth or elsewhere, upon the testy- 
mony of his good behavior hee hath brought with him." 
Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. I. p. 82. 

This is the first mention of William Macomber in America. 
The testimony of good behavior is likely to have been obtained 
from the person with whom he served his apprenticeship in learn- 
ing the trade of a cooper. The date of the above record is April 
2 1638. 

I nder date of Sept. 3, 1638, are found the following records : 

"Will'm Maycumber, a cooper, is graunted an island lying on 
the north side Powder Poynt, & containing about three or four 
acres of land, provided that the committees of Duxborrow doe 
consent thereunto, and that he doe not stop the townes cattle from 
the fresh water thereupon," and "Liberty is graunted to Will'm 
Maycumber, cooper, to fetch tymber to make hoopes of for ves- 
sels for the colonies use at Clarks Island and Sagaquash." 
Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. I. p. 95. 

Aug. 3, 1640, "Will'm Maycumber is granted the wood fitt for 
coopery growing upon Wood Island, to be used by. him so long 
as he followeth his trade, and forbidding all others to cutt there 
except for the loading of boats and vessells to carry away the 
hay." Plymouth Colony Records, Vol. I. p. 159. 

Pie settled in Marshfield, Mass. In 1644 he was fined for 
speaking against the Indians. He was a surveyor in Marshfield 

in l6 53- - . . 

A sworn statement, made March 1, 1655, gives his age as 45 
years. He was, therefore, born in 1610. Tradition says that he 
was brother to John Macomber of Taunton. In favor of this is 
the following: 

"Aug. 20, 1644, William Maycumber of Duxborrow 

sent forth to bring in John Macomber for non-appearance for 



90 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

making allarum at Taunton." See Proprietors' Records at 
Taunton. 

A bond of administration on the estate of the late William 
Macomber of Marshfield was given, June 6, 1670, by Ursilla 
Macomber, widow, of Marshfield, Thomas Macomber of Taun- 
ton, cooper, and Matthew Macomber of Marshfield. 

In December, 1675, Mathew Macomber of Taunton, son of 
William deceased, being twenty-five years of age or thereabouts, 
made his will, giving all his real estate to his loving brother, 
John Macomber, twenty shillings to his honored mother, ten 
shillings to his brother, Thomas Macomber, and ten shillings 
apiece to all his sisters unnamed. John Macomber, Jr., was 
witness. Thomas Macomber made oath to the inventory of 
Matthew Macomber's estate in 1676. See Probate Records at 
Plymouth, Mass. 

The farm occupied by William Macomber is still in the pos- 
session of the Macomber family, being owned by his descendant 
of the ninth generation, Herbert Israel Macomber. The original 
house was a garrison house for protection against the Indians, 
the ends being brick and the rest of wood. It was burned about 
the time of the Revolutionary War. It stood very near to the 
house now occupied by the widow of Israel Hatch Macomber, 
which is the nearest house to the Railway Station at Marshfield 
Hills. The land extended down to the Bay and included the 
small island above mentioned. 

It is probable that the early generations of Marshfield Macom- 
bers were buried not far from the house where they lived, and 
near to a tomb built by William Macomber (1748-1815). This 
is south from the house above mentioned a short walk and on 
the opposite side of the road. 

It appears that William Macomber of Marshfield, born in 
1610, died about 1670, that he had wife named Ursilla and chil- 
dren above named. From varied sources have been gathered 
the names of several daughters and their marriages. That they 
belonged to William Macomber's family is an almost necessary 
inference. 

2. John m. Hannah Bobbit. 

3. William m. Mary . 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 9 1 

4. Thomas m. Sarah Crocker. 

Matthew b. 3 Feb. 1648; d. 1670. Unm. 
Edith m. in Marshfield, Nov. 1664, John Lincoln of 
/ Hingham. 

Sarah m. in Marshfield, 6 Nov. 1666, Wm. Briggs ; d. 

Mcfy 1680. 
Hannah m. Oct. 1672, Joseph Randall of Scituate. 
Ursila m. in Marshfield, 9 Dec. 1673, Nicholas White, Jr. 

SECOND GENERATION 
2 

John Macomber (William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., is 
often mentioned in the history of Taunton and is called in deeds 
"John Macomber the cooper" to distinguish him from other John 
Macombers. He married Hannah, daughter of Edward Bobbit, 
who was born 9 March, 1660. Edward Bobbit was an original 
settler in Taunton and took land in the South Purchase, now 
Berkley. During the Indian War he was obliged to flee to the 
block house in Taunton and was killed by Indians while return- 
ing to his farm. He married, 7 July 1654, Sarah, daughter of 
Miles Tarne of Boston, Mass. 

July 23, 1684, J°h n Macomber of Taunton, cooper, acknowl- 
edged that his wife Hannah, a sister of Edward Bobbit, received 
her part of her father's estate by a deed of land "down Taunton 
River," being lot No. 1, near Little River. — See Deed at Taun- 
ton, III. 574. 

John Macomber was a soldier in King William's War in 1691. 
He made his will, "being aged," 29 June, 1716. He was living 
21 Jan. 1717-8, as a deed shows. His will names children as 
follows : 

5. William b. 1684, as per deposition; m. Hannah Hoskins. 

Sarah, m. abt. 1715, Wm. Hoar; d. 13 Jan. 1757. 

Damaris, m. 10 Dec. 1712, Josiah Cane. 

Esther "l 

Hannah > One of these m. William Richmond. 

Ruth ) 

3 

William Macomber (William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 
was a cooper by trade. May 18-28, 1665, James Cooke of 



92 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Plymouth sold to William Macomber, Jr., of Marshfield, one- 
fourth part of a share of land at Dartmouth, given to him by his 
deceased father, Francis Cooke. — See Deeds at Plymouth. 
III. 169. 

The lot just mentioned was in the present town of Westport, 
Mass., and embraced what is now a part of the village of West- 
port Point. It was bounded easterly by the main road and west- 
erly by the west branch of Westport River. This original farm 
of one hundred and forty or more acres has been considerably 
divided, but a part of the same is still in the possession of the 
Macomber family, being owned by Charles I •'. Macomber. 

The will of William Macomber, dated 10 April. 171 1. and 
probated 2 July, 171 1, names wife Mary and all his children, 
whose births are found in the town records of Dartmouth. 

Elizabeth b. 17 March, 1673; living in 1723. I nm. 

6. William b. 24 Dec. 1674; m. Elizabeth Randall. <; Mch. 

1697-8. 

7. Thomas b. 3 June, 1679; m. Hannah . 

8. Abiel b. 12 Jan. 1685; m. Susannah Childs. 

9. John b. 11 July, 1687; m. Bethiah Taber, 11 Sept. 171 1. 

10. Ephraim b .11 Feb. 1692; m. Jane Dyre, 4 June 1721. 
Mary b. 15 Feb. 1695; m. Thomas Manchester, 13 

Oct. 1717. 

4 
Thomas Macomber (William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 
was a cooper and lived for a time in Taunton, where he had a 
grant of land with others, 20 Feb. 1667. He sold this to his 
brother, John Macomber, in 1684, and settled on the paternal 
estate in Marshfield. Here he was constable in 1678; surveyor 
in 1680, on a jury in 1682 and 1684-5, selectman in 1689 and 
1692, treasurer in 1693, 1694 and 1696. He married, 20 Jan. 
1676 Sarah, daughter of Francis and Mary (Gaunt) Crocker, or 
Crooker. See Pope's Pioneers of Mass. p. 123. His will, dated 
16 Aug. 1710, and probated 9 July, 171 1, names but two children. 
The valuation of his estate was £663. 

Ursila b. 26 Nov. 1681 ; m. Job Randall. 

11. Thomas b. 2 July, 1684; m. Joanna Tinkham. 



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THIRD GENERATION 

5 
William Macomber (John 2 , William 1 ), born in Taunton, 
Mass., in 1684, married Hannah, daughter of William and Sarah 
(Caswell) Hoskins and granddaughter of William Hoskins the 
emigrant. A deposition was made by him 20 May, 1757, "of 
more than seventy-three years of age." His wife, born 14 Feb. 
1678, died in Sept. 1764. His will, dated 24 March, 1747-8, and 
probated 6 Feb. 1759, names wife Hannah and children Henry, 
John, Stephen, Jacob, William, Abigail Briggs, Ursila Briggs, 
Jude Robinson, Hannah Bassett and Mary Macomber. 

12. John m. Mary Madum 10 Sept. 1747, (2) Elizabeth 
Wilbur. 

13. Henry m. Susanna Thrasher, 1 March, 1757. 

14. Stephen m. Sarah McNeil, 5 March, 1744-5. 

15. Jacob m. Eleanor Turner, 1740. 

16. William m. Abiah . 

Abigail m, Briggs. 

Ursila b. 5 July, 1708; m. in Dighton 1.0 Nov. 1730, 
Isaac Briggs of Taunton ; living, a widow, in 1784. 

Jude m. Robinson. 

Hannah m. Benjamin Bassett, 15 Nov. 1737, in Bridge- 
water, Mass. 

Mary, unmarried in 1753. 

Damaris? m. 31 Jan. 1732, Timothy Rogers of Middle- 
borough- 

6 

William Macomber (William-, William 1 ), born in Dart- 
mouth, Mass., 26 Sept. 1674, married, 9 March, 1697-8, his first 
cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Macomber) 
Randall of Scituate, Mass. 

May 10, 1722, William Macomber of Dartmouth and Eliza- 
beth his wife sold to Cornelius White land in Scituate, "given to 
my wife Elizabeth by her Hon d Father Joseph Randall late of 
Scituate, deceased, in his last will and testament." See Deed at 
Plymouth, Mass. 

The will of Joseph Randall of Scituate, dated 17 Nov. 1720, 
and probated 17 March, 1720-21, names among others wife Han- 
nah and daughter Elizabeth Macomber. See Wills at 
Plymouth, Mass., VI. 270. 



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William Macomber was a tanner. His will, dated 17 July, 
1759, and probated 6 April, 1767, does not mention his wife but 
names sons Timothy, Samuel, Joseph and William, daughters 
Ruth, Margaret, Elizabeth Manchester, children of son Mat- 
thew deceased, viz., Jeremiah, Gideon, Ichabod, Stephen and 
Keziah, and grandson Weston Soule, son of daughter Hannah 
deceased. The births of all his children are recorded in Dart- 
mouth, Mass. 

17. Matthew b. 19 Dec. 1698; m. Elizabeth Manchester. 

18. Joseph b. 2$ April 1700; m. Mary Tripp. 

19. William b. 29 March, 1702; m. Lydia Tripp. 
Hannah b. 8 Nov. 1703; m. Nathaniel Soule, 13 Feb. 

I732-3- 
Elizabeth b. 4 Sept. 1705; m. 8 Aug. 1744. Wm. Man- 
chester of Tiverton. 

20. Samuel b. 8 July, 1707; m. Mary Tripp. 

Sarah b. 13 March 1709; not named in her father's will. 

21. Timothy b. 8 Oct. 171 1; m. Elizabeth Rogers. 
Ruth b. 28 Oct. 1714; living, unm., in 1788. 
Margaret b. 16 Feb. 1719-20; living, unm., in 1759. 

7 
Thomas Macomber (William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, 

Mass., 3 June 1679, married Hannah , who signed a deed 

with him 28 March, 1713, and probably died before 1715. Thomas 
Macomber of Dartmouth, ferryman, sold to Jeremiah Devol, 21 
March, 1726-7, two ferryboats, wharfs, and all utensils for a 
ferry, with three tracts of land in Dartmouth, including "land 
laid out to heirs of Wilcocks." He bought land in Tiverton in 
1727, and Benjamin Macomber of Tiverton sold to "my father 
Thomas Macomber" two tracts of land in Tiverton 10 Feb. 
1736-7. He is mentioned as buying land of Philip Taber in Tiv- 
erton 13 Feb. 1743. Living in 1754, supported by town of Tiv- 
erton. 

22. Benjamin b. 1 Sept. 1705; m. (1) Rejoice Brownell, (2) 

Sarah Waite, (3) Rebecca Grinnell. 
Mary? m. 4 March 1738-9, Wm. Corey in Tiverton, b. 2 
March 1711-12. 



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8 

Abiel Macomber (William 2 , Wiliam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, 
Mass., 12 Jan. 1685, was living in Newport, R. I., in 171 1, and 
died before 1720. He married Susanna Childs, daughter of Ter- 
emiah and Martha of Swansea, Mass. She married (2) Samuel 
Darling and moved to New Haven, Conn., about 1722. Samuel 
Darling died 29 April 1760, in the 68th year of his age. Susanna 
died 10 March 1758, aged 79. So say inscriptions on their tomb- 
stones in New Haven. 

Dec. 20, 1734, Samuel Darling and Susannah his wife of New 
Haven "for the love and good will we do have and bear unto our 
loving son Jeremiah Macomber of New Haven," quitclaimed 
ninety-five acres in Newport and two pieces of land in Dartmouth 
"and also all rights of land within the same towm or elsewhere 
being the proper right and estate of Abiel Macomber late of 
Newport, aforesaid, deceased." — See deed at Taunton, Mass., 
XXVII. 244. 

23. Jeremiah b. 1711; m. Sarah Cooper, (2) Sarah Pardee. 
Abiah b. 1712; m. 19 Feb. 1734-5, John Hall of New 

Haven, Conn. She d. 13 Nov. 1798, aged 86. He was 
b. 17 Jan. 1704-5, and d. June 1760. 

9 
John Macomber (William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, 
Mass., 11 July 1687, married, 11 Sept. 171 1, Bethiah, daughter 
of John Taber (who married Alary, dau. of John and Sarah 
(Warren) Cooke, both of May flower descent) and granddaughter 
of Philip and Lydia (Masters) Taber. She was born 3 Sept. 
1687. His will, dated 7 Oct. 1723, and probated 8 Nov. 1723, 
names wife Bethiah, sons Philip, Abiel, John and William, and 
daughters Mercy and Mary. There was also a posthumous son, 
Job. Bethiah's will, 9 Sept. 1776 — 3 Oct. 1780, names all chil- 
dren except Abiel. 

24. Philip b. 11 Sept. 1712; m. Margaret Potter. 

Mercy b. 28 March 1714; m. Josiah Closson, 1 April 

1733- 
Mary b. 4 May 1715; d. in 1799. Unm. 
Abiel b. 4 Oct. 1717; d. in 1740. Unm. 



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25. John b. 8 Jan. 1719-20; m. Desire Potter, (2) Marcy 

Devol. 

26. William b. 15 March 1721-2; m. Lusanna Hicks. 

Job b. 13 Feb. 1723-4; m. 11 May 1746, Mary Case. His 
will, 23 Dec. 1795 — 7 May 1799, names wife Mary and 
gives all real estate to Humphrey Allen, son of Daniel 
Allen of Westport. 

10 
Ephraim Macomber (William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dart- 
mouth, Mass., 11 Feb. 1692, married, 4 June 1721, in Newport, 
R. I., Jane Dyre. An Ephraim Macomber, perhaps his son, 
married Mary Greene of Newport, 11 June 1750. He was then 
of Middleton, R. I. An Ephraim Macomber died at Newport, 
R. I., 24 Sept. 1815, in the 92d year of his age. A "Mrs. Macom- 
ber" died at Newport 9 March 1760, aged 30. 

11 
Dea. Thomas Macomber (Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Marshfield, Mass., 2 July 1684, married, 14 June 1709, Joanna, 
dau. of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Tinkham of Mid- 
dleborough, granddau. of Ephraim Tinkham, who married Mary, 
dau. of Peter Brown of the Mayflower. He died in Marshfield, 
5 Oct. 1771. His wife died 29 April 1766, aged 80. His will, 
dated 19 Aug. 1767, names sons Onesimus and Thomas, both 
deceased, daughters Elizabeth Winslow, Sarah Barker, and 
Joanna Macomber, grandsons Thomas and Onesimus sons of 
Onesimus deceased, and grandsons William and Thomas sons 
of Thomas deceased. Children as in records of Macomber fam- 
ily of Hanson, Mass. 

27. Thomas b. 28 April 1710; m. Mercy Tilden. 
Ursula b. 10 Dec. 171 1; d. 10 Nov. 1749. Unm. 
Sarah b. 27 Sept. 1713; m. Josiah Barker of Pembroke, 

Mass. 
Elizabeth b. 22 Feb. 1716; m. Job Winslow, 20 March 

1740. 
Ebenezer b. 14 March 1718; d. at Taunton 6 Mch. 1813, 

in the 95th year of his age? 

28. Onesimus b. 18 June 1720; m. Lucy Barker. 
Joanna b. 20 April 1722; d. abt. 1771. Unm. 



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FOURTH GENERATION 
12 

John Macomber (William 3, John 2, William 1), born in 
Taunton, married (1) 10 Sept. 1747 Mary Madum, who died 
26 May 1767, (2) 28 Nov. 1767, Elizabeth Wilbur. He died 
about 1 78 1. 

Matthew m. Sarah Woodward of Norton, 5 May 1769. 
She was born 6th of 4th month, 175 1. Both living in 
Taunton in 1794. Ch., Matthew, who prob. m. 13 
Nov. 1791 Hope Haskins of Middleboro; Sarah; Fan- 
nie; and Apollos, who m. Olive White, April 1793. 
Sarah m. Seth Owen. 

29. Jonathan m. prob. Eliza Dryer. 
Mary, unmarried. 

30. Abiathar b. abt. 1764; m. Abigail Leonard. 
Susan m. Samuel Howard. 

Hannah m. Paul Eddy, 9 Dec. 1773. 

13 
Henry Macomber (William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in 

Taunton, Mass., married (1) Hannah , who signed a deed 

with him 21 Sept. 1754, (2) 1 March 1757, Susanna Thrasher in 
Taunton, dau. of Eleazar and Hannah (Short) Pratt of Mid- 
dleborough. Both living in Taunton in 1795. He was a soldier 
of the Revolution. The names of the first six children given 
here are remembered by one pf his descendants. The others are 
given by conjecture, since I cannot otherwise classify them. 

Reuben, Revolutionary soldier. Nothing more known. 

Lucy m. Samuel Leonard, 17 July 1786. 

Sally m. Nehemiah Chace, 27 May 1790. 

Susan. 

31. Nehemiah m. Charlotte Davis, 15 May 1796. 

32. Isaiah b. 1771 ; m. Susanna Harvey, 9 March 1799. 

33. Lemuel m. Sarah Hooper, 28 Feb. 1782. 

34. Seth m. 1780 Phebe Smith. 

14 

Stephen Macomber (William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Taunton, Mass., married in Middleborough, 4 March 1744-5, 



98 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sarah McNeil, or McNeil. He seems to have been a revolution- 
ary soldier. Have found no further record of him. The records 
of Middleborough say that Luther was son of Stephen and Mary 
Macomber, so that he may have had a second wife named Mary. 
Descendants remember that Simeon, Luther and Sally were 
brothers and sister and do not remember any others in his family. 

35. Simeon b. ; m. Lydia Richmond, 26 Dec. 1771. 

36. Luther b. 1769; m. Achsah Tinkham, 14 Nov. 1797. 
Sally b. 1757; m. Josiah Robinson; d. 2 Oct. 1839, 

aged 82. 

Jacob Macomber (William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Taun- 
ton, Mass., bought in 1738 thirty-two acres on the line of Bridge- 
water and Easton, Mass. He married, about 1740, Eleanor, dau. 
of William and Eleanor (Whitman) Turner of Bridgewater, 
born in 1717. She died 10 Feb. 1780. He married (2) 1 April 
1782, Elizabeth Niles, born 19 March 1737. He lived and died 
in Easton 3 April 1787. He was one of the Committee of Cor- 
respondence, Inspection and Safety in 1778. His widow mar- 
ried John Packard 21 April 1780, and they went with her son, 
David Macomber, to Chesterfield, Mass., and died there. 

37. Jacob b. 16 Aug. 1747; m. Esther Pettengill. 
Hannah b. 16 Feb. 1750; m. 3 Sept. 1787 William Guin- 

nith of Boston. 

38. David b. 2 Sept. 1752 ; m. Catharine Littlefield. 

39. Daniel b. 15 April 1756; m. Lucy Keith. 

Edmund b. 7 June 1759. Rev. soldier. Sold land in 
Easton, 1783. 

16 
William Macomber (William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in 

Taunton, Mass., married Abiah . William Macomber and 

wife Abiah sold, 7 Sept. 1753, to Abiel Crane land in Berkley,. 
Mass. He is called a shoemaker in the deed. May 25, 1757, 
William Macomber, Jr., of Taunton and wife Abia sold to Seth 
Pitts land and buildings in Taunton. May 26, 1773, William 
Macomber and wife Abiah of Middleborough, for £64, sold to 
their son, Elijah Macomber, thirty-one acres in Middleborough, 
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99 



path, with a dwelling house thereon standing. See deeds at 
Plymouth, XXXIII. 64. 

Sept. 12, 1775, Elijah Macomber of Middlebrough sold to Sol- 
omon Dunham the last mentioned piece of property, "it being the 
homestead of my honored father William Macomber, whereon 
he last dwelt." See deeds at Plymouth, LXXXI. 257. 

"William Maycumber" made his will at Northfield, Mass., 17 
March 1800, and it was probated 6 Jan. 1801. It names wife 
Betsey, executrix, and the following children. He is thought 
to have been the same William Macomber who earlier had wife 
Abiah in Taunton. A tradition remains in the family of Isaiah 
Macomber of northern Vermont, that he had an uncle who set- 
tled in western Vermont. He may have been living temporarily 
in Northfield at the time of his will and death. There are no 
deeds recorded in any of the western counties of Massachusetts 
to show that he or his sons had land there. 

Sarah Briggs. A Sarah Macomber m. Jacob Briggs of 

Berkley, 10 March 1760. 
Bathsheba Frye, alias Dunham. 
Wealthy Barter. 
40. Elijah m. Mehitable Johnson. 

William. Mrs. Hannah, wife of William Macomber, 
died in Taunton 22 Sept. 1795. Josiah W., son of 
William and Huldah Macomber, died in Taunton 9 
Nov. 1793, in the 2d year of his age. — Tombstones. A 
William Macomber of Taunton m. Tryphena Briggs of 
Berkley, 28 Jan. 1796. Tryphena Macomber b. 10 
Nov. 1801 ; m. 19 Oct. 1817, Oliver Ward Burnham of 
Lincoln, Vt. She d. 24 March 1874. 
Joel m. (1) in Taunton, 2 April 1797, Paddy Phillips, (2) 
in Gardner, Mass., 29 April 1803, Isabel Wood. He d. in 
Leominster', Mass., 31 Oct. 1805. Two ch., Elizabeth 
Wood b. 5 Feb. 1803, who m. in Princeton, Mass., 17 
June 1824, Rev. Lyman Maynard of Templeton, Mass., 
and Sally Moor b. 25 Sept. 1804, who d. at Gerry, 
Mass., 25 Aug. 1809. Widow Isabel Macomber m. 
Princeton, Mass., 15 Nov. 1821, Antipas Howe. 
Rufus. Unknown. 



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Moses. There died at Williamstown, Mass., i May 1872 
(recorded also in Hancock) Nathan Macomber, son 
of Moses and Anna, aged 55, tailor, married. Birth- 
place of parents unknown. A Mr. Macomber lived, 
about 1800, at Williamstown, on "Macomber Moun- 
tain," now called "Hopkins Mountain." 

"David Castle, alias David Maycumber." There died at 
Williamstown, Mass., 19 June 1857, Alanson Macom- 
ber, aged 47-5-20; son of David and Lucy. 

17 
Matthew Macomber (William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 

in Dartmouth, Mass., 19 Dec. 1698, married in Tiverton, R. I., 
10 Aug. 1725, Elizabeth Manchester. He died before 1759, when 
the following children are named in their grandfather, Wil- 
liam Macomber's will. 

41. Jeremiah m. 3 Aug. 1761, Lois Austin. 

42. Gideon m. Sarah Manchester. 

Ichabod m. 7 Mch. 1 75 1, Lydia Tomlin, at Little Comp- 
ton, R. I. 

Stephen pub. 1 May 1758, to Mary Brown in Dart- 
mouth, Mass. 

Keziah m. 1 Oct. 1 761, Jonathan Devol, in Tiverton, R. I. 

18 
Joseph Macomber (William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 23 April 1700, married Mary Tripp, daughter 
of Ebenezer and Abigail, born in Dartmouth 19 Dec. 1704. 
Ebenezer Tripp in his will, 19 July 1754 — 2 Nov. 1756, names 
dau. Mary Macomber lately deceased and her children Benjamin, 
Jonathan, Ebenezer, Mary West, Joanna Macomber, Abigail 
Manchester, and "grandson John Davenport son of my grand- 
daughter the daughter of my daughter • Mary Macomber." 
Joseph Macomber married (2) in Dartmouth, 9 March 1749, 
Abigail dau. of Benjamin and Deborah (Russell) Allen, bom 4 
Feb. 1709. First four children recorded in Dartmouth. 

Sarah b. 2 March 1725 ; m. Oliver Davenport, 9 April 

1 740- 1. 
Mary b. 15 Feb. 1727; m. Richard West. Pub. 3 Jan. 
1753- 



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Joanna b. 4 Dec. 1728. Unm. in 1754. 
Joseph b. 25 Sept. 1730; prob. d. before 1754. 
Abigail m. 12 Aug. 1752 Joseph Manchester in Tiverton. 
Benjamin. 

43. Jonathan m. Sarah Vars, or Varse, 8 Sept. 1765. 
Ebenezer. 

19 

William Macomber (William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 29 March 1702, married Lydia, dau. of Abiel 
Tripp, born 23 Aug. 171 1. Published 2 April 1728. He died 3 
Feb. 1800. She died 17 May 1788. Both were buried on his 
farm. His will, dated 22 Feb. 1786, names wife Lydia and the 
following children. The first two are recorded in Dartmouth, 
where he lived. 

44. Abiel b. 3 Oct. 1729; m. Rest Devol. 

Lydia b. 24 Aug. 1732; m. Peleg Cornell, 29 Dec. 1753. 

45. John b. 26 Dec. 1734; m. Mary Deuel. 
Peace m. Ebenezer Cornell. Pub. 27 Sept. 1760. 
Alice, unmarried. 

46. David m. Hannah Brown. 

47. James m. . 

48. Joshua m. Hannah Wilbur. 

49. George m. Rhoda Grinnell. 

50. Wesson m. Mary Hart. 

20 

Samuel Macomber (William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 8 July 1707, married Mary Tripp. Pub- 
lished 24 Nov. 1733- Children recorded in Dartmouth. 

Mary b. 25 Aug. 1734; pub. to Michael Macomber, 10 

July 1755- 
Hannah b. 29 Feb. 1736; m. Jonathan Gifford, 3 April 

,1766. 

Ann b. 5 Feb. 1738. 

51. Samuel b. 8 July 1739; m. Rachel Mosher. 

52. Elijah b. 4 Nov. 1740; m. Hannah Gidley. 

Judah b. 5 Nov. 1742; m. James Taber, 15 Jan. 1767. 

53. Daniel b. 2 Nov. 1744; m. Rebecca Kirby. 



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Elizabeth b. 19 June 1747; m. Daniel Mosher, 30 

Dec. 1764. 
Zilpha b. 10 Mch. 1750; m. Nathan Rounds of Tiverton, 

22 Mch. 1767. 
Phebe b. 23 June 1752; m. Caleb Briggs, 5 Oct. 1780. 
Ruth b. 19 Dec. 1754; m. Joseph Trafford, 22 Sept. 1777. 

21 
Timothy Macomber (William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 8 Oct. 171 1, married in Hanover, Mass., 25 
Jan. 1738-9, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Deborah (Hatch) 
Rogers, born 7 Jan. 1709-10. He inherited the homestead in 
Dartmouth and bequeathed it to his son William. His will, dated 
29 Sept. 1788 and probated 4 Oct. 1791, names children as 
follows : 

54. William b. 26 March 1740; m. Sarah Brownell, 11 May 

1760. 

55. Timothy m. Abigail Brownell, 9 Jan. 1772. 
Sarah m. Thomas Allen, pub. 23 July 1774. 
Deborah m. Jonathan 'Gifford. Pub. 3 April 1766. 

22 

Benjamin Macomber (Thomas 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mats., 1 Sept. 1705, lived in Tiverton, R. I. He 
sold land to his father Thomas Macomber, 10 Feb. 1736-7. He 
married (1) 25 May 1730, Rejoice, dau. of William and Lydia 
Brownell, who was born 29 July 1707 and died 17 March 1733 
in Dartmouth, (2) 9 May 1736, Sarah, dau. of Thomas Wait of 
Tiverton (who m. Mercy Tripp 25 Jan. 1710-11). She was born 
23 Sept. 1713. They were married at Portsmouth, R. I. He 
married (3) 25 Aug. 1773, Rebecca, dau. of Jonathan and Abigail 
(Ford) Grinnell, born 22 April 1718. His will, 6 March 1783 — 
May 1784, names wife Rebecca, sons Michael and Ephraim, 
daughters Lydia wife of Edward Perry, grandchildren children 
of my daughter Waite Springer deceased but formely Waite 
Manchester, viz., Thomas, John, Sarah, Hannah, and Elizabeth 
Manchester, granddaughter Ruth Macomber daughter of my son 
Benjamin Macomber deceased, and sons of my son Benjamin 
Macomber deceased. — See Records at Tiverton, R. I. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 03 

Lydia b. 10 Sept. 1731 ; m. 19 Dec. 1754, Edward Perry, 
Jr., in Tiverton. 

56. Michael b. 1 Jan. 1732-3; m. Mary Macomber, (2) 

Sarah Manchester. 
Children by second marriage : 

Wait b. 23 June 1737; m. (1) Manchester, (2) 

Springer. 

57. Benjamin b. 24 Dec. 1742; m. Sarah King, 8 June 1767. 

58. Ephraim b. 5 March 1749-50; m. Patience Fish, 20 

Sept. 1767. 

23 
Jeremiah Macomber (Abial 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Newport, R. I., in 171 1, went to New Haven, Conn., with his 
step-father, Samuel Darling, about 1722. Nov. 30 1737, Jere- 
miah Macomber of New Haven sold to Philip Taber land in 
Dartmouth which he inherited from his father, Abiel Macomber, 
of Newport. Mr. Jeremiah Macomber died 20 Sept. 1795 in the 
84th year of his age, as his tombstone in New Haven declares. 
He married (1) Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Elizabeth (Smith) 
Cooper, born 13 Oct. 1716. She died 8 April 1778, in the 63d 
year of her age. He married (2) 18 June 1794, Sarah Pardee in 
New Haven. Children as found in church records of New 
Haven. 

59. Abiel bapt. 28 Sept. 1740; m. Abigail Sherrod, or 

Sherwood. 
Sarah bapt. 8 Feb. 1741-2; m. Dea. Isaac Bishop, 21 

Jan. 1762. 
Abiah bapt. 13 Nov. 1743; m. prob. Levi Atwater. 
Thomas bapt. 2 Feb. 1745-6; d. 19 Feb. 1831, aged 85. 

Prob. unm. 
Mary bapt. 24 April 1748; m. 28 Dec. 1769 Thomas 

Trowbridge, (2) John Morris. 
Esther bapt. 2 Sept. 1750; m. 24 Oct. 1771, Leverett 

Stevens. 
Margaret bapt. 4 Feb. 1752-3 ; m. 28 May 1772 Thomas 

Atwater. She d. 2 April 1834, aged 82. 
Susannah bapt. 7 Sept. 1755; m. 1 Jan. 1776, Timothy 

Atwater. She d. 11 Jan. 1831, aged 75. 



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24 

Philip Macomber (John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 11 Sept. 1712, married Margaret Potter, dau. 
of John and Mary. Published 30 Sept. 1732. Children recorded 
in Dartmouth, except the last three, who with wife Margaret are 
named in his will, dated 17 Feb. 1798, and probated 5 May 1801. 

60. Zebedee b. 4 Dec. 1733; m. Elizabeth Cornell. 

61. John b. 5 May 1735; m. Hannah Hart. 

Peace b. 22 Nov. 1736; m. 17 July 1760 Stephen Davis. 

62. Philip b. 22 Aug. 1738; m. Susannah Hart. 
Patience b. 16 Nov. 1739; m. Abner Potter. Pub. 5 

Dec. 1757. 
Margaret b. 31 Aug. 1741 ; m. Seth, son of Increase 

Allen. Pub. 8 Nov. 1759. 
Judea b. 29 Mch. 1743; m. prob. 10 Aug. 1781, Aaron 

Potter. 

63. Abiel b. 26 Jan. 1745; m. Phebe Brightman. 

Rest b. 16 March 1747; m. Samuel Springer, 26 April 
1778. 

64. Noe b. 25 Jan. 1748; m. Ruth Brightman. 

65. Archer b. 4 April 175 1 ; m. Eunice Cornell. 

66. Constant b. ; m. Mrs. Mary (Earle) Hicks. 

67. Humphrey b. ; m. Phebe Brightman, (2) Mary 

Manchester. 

Abigail? b. ; m. Thomas Case, 30 Jan. 1780? Esther 

Case, dau. of deceased daughter, is named in Philip's 

will. See under No. 42. 
Probably another daughter. 

25 
John Macomber (John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dart- 
mouth, Mass., 8 Jan. 1719-20, married (1) 13 Dec. 1744, Desire, 
dau. of Nathaniel and Mary (Devol) Potter, who was born 2 
July 1729 and died 18 Aug. 1762, having been a preacher among 
the Friends over eight years. He married (2) 30 July 1772, 
Mercy, dau. of Peter and Susannah (Tripp) Devol, born 8 Feb. 
1735. She married (2) 31 March 1791, William Anthony. John 
Macomber's will was dated 21 Dec. 1780 and probated 7 Sept. 
1784. Children recorded. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 105 

68. Caleb b. 22 May 1747; m. Rachel Wilbur. 
Bethia b. 21 May 1749; unmarried in 1791. 
Hannah b. 8 March 1752. Not named in will. 

69. Nathaniel b. 7 Nov. 1764; m. Susannah Macomber. 

70. Joshua b. 17 Dec. 1756; m. Martha Potter. 
Mary b. 20 June 1759; d. 19 Nov. 1798. 
Bathsheba b. 1 March 1761 ; d. 25 Feb. 1852. Unm. 

26 
William Macomber (John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 15 March 1721-2, married, 24 Jan. 1745-6, 
Lusanna, dau. of Gabriel and Sarah (Manchester) Hicks. Lived 
in Westport, Mass. His will, dated 18 Aug. 1801 and probated 
1 May 1804, mentions wife, unnamed, and the following children, 
the first four being recorded in Dartmouth. 

Phebe b. 1 Nov. 1745 ; m. John Brightman, 11 Mch. 1771. 

71. Abner b. 2 June 1748; m. Isabel Mosher. 

Sarah b. 9 June 1750; m. Sherman. 

Pardon b. 10 Dec. 1752; not named in will. 
Hannah m. Gideon Sherman, 20 Feb. 1783. 
Patience m. James Soule, 6 Dec. 1789. 

Susannah m. Nathan Chace 19 Oct. 1794? (2) Potter. 

Peace m. Rogers. 

Comfort, unmarried. 

72. Peter m. Elizabeth Mosher, (2) Rhoda Allen. 

27 

Thomas Macomber (Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Marshfield, Mass., 28 April 1710, married, 9 May 1745, Mercy, 
dau. of Samuel and Sarah (Curtis) Tilden, and died in 1747- 
His father was appointed administrator of his estate 6 Jan. 1748. 
His widow married, 8 Jan. 1761, Daniel Thomas, Jr. Two sons, 
named in their grandfather's will, are recorded in Marshfield. 

7$. William b. 1 May 1746; m. Ruth White 16 Oct. 1764. 

74. Thomas b. 2 Aug. 1748; m. Prudence Stetson 28 July 
1768. 

28 

Onesimus Macomber (Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Marshfield, Mass., 15 June 1720, married, 15 June 1744, Lucy 
Barker of Hingham, Mass., and died in 1749- His widow mar- 
ried, 9 Jan. 1759, Simeon Curtis of Hanover, Mass. Two children 
of Onesimus Macomber are recorded in Marshfield. 



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75. Thomas b. 31 May 1746; m. Leah Tilcien 12 July 1767. 
Onesimus b. 20 July 1748; m. widow Sarah Little. Had 
son Onesimus b. 15 May 1790, who d. 27 Mch. 1791. 
Onesimus, the father, died 24 April 1791. Widow 
probably m. 2.2. Jan. 1798, Elisha Curtis of Hanover. 



FIFTH GENERATION 



29 

Jonathan Macomber (Prob. John 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ) is probably the one who married, in Rehoboth, 15 Dec. 
1774, Eliza Dryer, born 1 March 1756, dau. of John and Mary. 
In 1779 he was living in Bernardston, Mass. In 1810 he appears 
in a town election in Shelburne, Vt. He is said to have had the 
following children : 

Jonathan, removed in early life to Michigan. 
Nathan, died in Buffalo, N. Y. Had son Orlando, law- 
yer in Buffalo. 
Madden, died unmarried. 
76. Samuel m. Mrs. Urania (Still well) Havens. 

30 
Abiathar Macomber (John 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass., married, 22 Nov. 1787, Abigail, dau. of 
Benjamin and Bethiah (Drake) Leonard. The records of Mid- 
dleborough say that he died 3 Aug. 1837, aged 67. The Revolu- 
tionary Rolls fix his birth about 1764. His wife died Nov. 1839, 
aged 75. 

yy. Abiathar b. 13 June 1790; m. Hannah White. 

Malinda m. Joseph Drayton. Pub. 8 July 18 10. 

Zilpah m. Seth Tisdale, 28 Feb. 1813. 

Lucetta m. Philip Mason of Raynham, 6 Jan. 1828. 

31 

Nehemiah Macomber (Henry 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass.. was a soldier in the Revolution, enlisting 
in 1779 with guards of Boston. He also enlisted 6 March 1781, 
and rendered service in Rhode Island. Aug. 22, 1797, Henry and 
Susanna Macomber of Taunton sold to Nehemiah Macomber, 
mariner, of Taunton, about twelve acres, which he sold to Eben- 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 107 

ezer Dean, Aug. 19, 1794. It was near the land of Abiel 
Macomber. 

Xehemiah Macomber married, in Boston, 15 May 1796, Char- 
lotte Davis. Sept. 14, 1807, Charlotte Macomber of Boston, was 
made administratrix of the estate of Nehemiah McCumber, late 
of Boston, mariner. He had land, house and store on Prince 
Street. Value of his estate, $3,630. His children chose Joseph 
Brown of Roxbury as guardian. All are named in a deed, 11 
September 1823. 

Charlotte Miller m. Leonard Gibbs, 16 Dec. 1827. 

Fanny m. Samuel Lawrence of Ashby, Mass. 

James. This may be the one who m. Fanny, dau. of Samuel 
and Hannah (Putney) Very and lived in Utica, N. Y. She was 
born in Salem, Mass., in 1795. Ch., James Gregg, Frances, and 
Emma. See Essex Hist. Coll. Vol. II. p. 38. Children, Anna, 
Caroline, Franklin, and Frances C. died in Boston in infancy, 
1825-8. 

32 

Isaiah Macomber (Henry 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Taunton, Mass., about 1771 married in Bridgewater, Mass., 2 
March 1799, Susanna Harvey. He settled in Greenboro, Vt., as 
a farmer and died there 2 Nov. 1839, aged 66 years. His wife 
died 23 April 1858, aged 81-11-15. Children: 

Elizabeth b. in Bridgewater; m. Marshall Fayer; d. in 
Glover, Vt. 

John W. b. in Vermont ; m. abt. 1839, Caroline, dau. of Allen 
Booth, born in New Bedford, Mass. She died, a widow, in 
Holderness, N. H., 27 March 1901, aged 77-0-26. Five ch., one 
of whom was David, b. in Derby, Vt., abt. 1853, who m. 21 Nov. 
1882, at New Bedford, Mass., Maggie (Graham) O'Rourke, dau. 
of William and Mary. 

David H. d. in Derby, Vt., in 1894, aged 93. Unm. 

Susan F. m. John H. Skinner. 

Mary m. Lyman C. Kittridge. 

WilliaxM C. b. 6 Oct. 1806; d. 26 Sept. 1884; m. Alice Smith. 
4 ch. The oldest son d. in the Civil War. A son, William, and a 
dau., Mrs. Lucy W. Calderwood, live in Craftsbury, Vt. 

Olive m. Amos Cate. 

Philena. Unmarried. 



108 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Isaiah m. Matilda White, who d. s. p. (2) Margaret Roberson. 
He d. before 1883. Three children. 

Henry B. b. 1812; m. Sylvia Ann Booth, b. 1821. Pub. in 
Middleboro, Mass., 17 Dec. 1839. Two sons, Edward G. b. in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 14 Jan. 1849, an d William Henry b. abt. 1840, 
who m. 9 Nov. 1865, Rebecca Ingraham Greene, b. 10 Nov. 1844, 
and had ch., Maud Josephine Lillian b. 23 Aug. 1867, Arietta Belle 
b. 25 Feb. 1870, William Henry Whipple b. 15 May 1873, Bennie 
Allen b. 26 Aug. 1875, and George Williamson b. 18 Sept. 1877. 

Lucinda m. Gershom Harriman. 

Abigail d. 16 Feb. 1853, aged 35. Unm. 

Sophronia m. John Hoyt. 

Maria m. Ephraim Pierce. 

33 

Lemuel Macombbr (perhaps Henry 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Taunton or Bridgewater, Mass., was a soldier of 
the Revolution, accredited to Taunton and also to Middleboro, 
enlisting several times between 1 April 1776 and 3 March 1780. 
Rank, matross. A descriptive list, dated 11 Jan. 1781, gives his 
age as 24, stature five feet, six inches. He married, 26 Feb. 1782, 
in Middleboro, Sarah, dau. of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Bryant) 
Hooper, both of Bridgewater, Mass. Jan. 15, 1787, Elijah Read 
of Middleboro sold to Lemuel Macomber of Bridgewater about 
four acres in Taunton. Aug. 25, 1789, Joel Eaton of Middleboro 
sold to Lemuel Macomber of Taunton about ten acres. Aug. 20, 
1792, Lemuel Macomber of Taunton sold to Josiah King of 
Taunton both of the above lots. In 1790 he was living in Taunton 
with, probably, two sons and three daughters. The Providence 
Journal says, that Lemuel Macomber, a revolutionary soldier, died 
at New Salem, Mass., 24 May 1827, aged 68 years. 

Children, so far as known : 

78. Lemuel b. abt. 1801 ; m. Lucy Philbrick. 

78. a. Bryant b. ; m. Priscilla Briggs. 

34 

Seth Macomber (perhaps Henry 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ) 

was a revolutionary soldier from Taunton. He married, 1780, 

Phebe Smith. The census of 1790 shows him living in Taunton 

with five females in his family. He died in Taunton 6 Nov. 1826, 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



IO9 



and his widow Phebe declined the administration of his estate and 
recommended John Reed, Jr., as administrator. She died 14 Jan. 
1828. Seth Macomber was a pensioner 7 Nov. 1826. Inventory 
shows no real estate and only $125 given to the widow. The fol- 
lowing may have been his daughters : 

Phebe m. Sept. 1800, Warden Briggs. 

Betsey m. 26 Aug. 1802, Eliphalet Wilson. 

35 
Simeon Macomber (Stephen 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Taunton or Middleborough, married in Middleborough, 26 
Dec. 1 77 1, Lydia, daughter of Seth and Lydia (Haskins) Rich- 
mond of Taunton. She was born 2 Aug. 175 1 and died July 1822. 
His will, dated 9 Oct. 1812, and probated 1 May 1827, gives estate 
to his son Gideon, subject to dower of his wife. He lived in Mid- 
dleborough, Mass. 

Phebe, died young. 

Lois b. 1780; m. 2 Aug. 1795, Jacob Barrows; d. 4 Aug. 
1827, aged 47. He d. 28 Aug. 1852, aged 78. 

79. Gideon m. 16 Oct. 1809, Huldah Simmons. 
Lydia m. Thomas Pratt, 13 Sept. 1798. 

Simeon b. 1779; d. 28 Aug. 1804, aged 25. Town 

records. 
Betsey m. William Thomas, 15 April 1802. 
Sarah m. Scott Barden, 8 June 1803. 
Stephen d. at age of 23. Unm. 

Lovina m. Eliphalet Elms, 7 June 1813; d. 29 Oct. 1836. 
Lucy d. at age of 20. Unm. 

36 
Luther Macomber (Stephen 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born about 1769 in Taunton or Middleborough, married in Mid- 
dleborough, 14 Nov. 1797, Achsah Tinkham. He died 25 Dec. 
1849, m the 80th year of his age. His wife died 22 April 1842, 
in the 65th year of her age. See tombstones in cemetery in Mid- 
dleborough on Taunton Street, near Lakeville. Children: 

80. Luther Crane b. 1800; m. Polly Eaton, 15 April 1827. 

81. Calvin T. b. 20 Jan. 1813; m. Eliza J. Shurtleff, 11 July 

1846. 



HO MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Melancy m. Royal Elms of Taunton. 

Cordelia m. Edwin F. Allen of Providence, R. I. 

Anna b. 1806, m. Jacob Holmes of Sharon, Mass., 21 Nov. 

1833. She died 17 June 1856. 
Emeline R. m. Calvin Southworth of Lakeville, Mass., 3 

June 1832; d. 25 April 1850. 

37 
Jacob Macomber (Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in 

Easton, Mass., 16 Aug. 1747, married, 15 Feb. 1776, Esther Pet- 
ting-ell. He lived in Easton and died 2^ April 183 1. She was 
born 31 Jan. 1749 and died 2 Dec. 1834, dau. of Joseph and Lydia 
(Phillips) Pettingell of Abington, Mass. Children, besides eight 
who died young. 

Hannah b. 28 March 1778; d. 6 Jan. 1863. 

Elenor b. 10 July 1781 ; d. 19 April 1839. 

Silence b. 25 June 1791 ; d. 23 March 1852. 

38 
David Macomber (Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in 

Easton, Mass., 2 Sept. 1752, married, 6 Sept. 1781, Katherine, dau. 

of Daniel and Katherine (Cole) Littlefield, who was born in 

Bridgewater, Mass., 13 March 1764, and died in Chesterfield, 

Mass., 14 Aug. 1846. He moved to Chesterfield in 1773 and died 

there 13 May 1819. He was a soldier in the Revolution. 

Daniel b. 3 July 1782; m. Irene Sprague, who d. 14 Nov. 

1843, ( 2 ) Sabrina, widow of Christopher Tiffany and 

dau. of Amos and Lucy (Stickney) Sanderson; d. s. p. 

2 Mch. 1859 at Westford, Vt. 

82. David b. 20 Oct. 1783; m. Rhoda Whiton. 
Eunice b. 28 March 1785; d. 24 Feb. 1803. 

83. Jacob b. 4 Oct. 1786; m. Elvira Hobart. 

84. Cyrus b. 24 Sept. 1788; m. Dolly Williams. 
Rebecca b. 18 Oct. 1790; m. Moses Bates ; d. 8 Mch. 1870. 

85. Edmund b. 23 Sept. 1792; m. Elizabeth Trow. 

86. Harvey b. 9 March 1794; m. widow of his brother 

Edmund. 
Hannah b. 27 Jan. 1796; d. 9 Nov. 1796. 

87. Alvan b. 1 Oct. 1797; m. Mercy A. Noyes, Nancy Burrell, 

Malinda White. 



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88. Melzar b. 17 July 1799; m. Annie Thayer. 
Sophronia b. 27 May 1804 ; m. 1 Jan. 1822 Zenas Gurney ; 

d. at Hart, Mich., 8 Sept. 1887. 

39 
Daniel Macomber (Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Easton, Mass., 15 April 1756, married (1), 9 March 1780, 
Lucy, dau. of Daniel and Joanna (Manley) Keith, born 1 Feb. 
1753. She died 4 April 1815. He married (2) 27 June 1817, 
Anna Searle. She died 4 Dec. 1821, aged 63. He died 10 April 
1824. He was a corporal in the Revolutionary Army. One child: 

89. David b. 2 July 1786; m. Phebe Perkins 25 July 1805. 

40 
Elijah Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Taunton, Mass., married, 1 July 1766, in Middleborough, 
Mehitable Johnson. He lived and died in Freetown, Mass. His 
will, dated 23 May 1823, and probated 7 Oct. 1823, names wife 
Mehitable and the following children : 

Rosina m. 18 Feb. 1790 Benj. Booth of Dartmouth. 
Thankful m. 21 Nov. 181 1 Japhet LeBarron Jr.; d. 5 

Feb. 1 86 1. 
Sally m. 26 April 1812, Elisha Hammond, perhaps (2) 

Allen Thatcher. 
Mehitable m. 6 Nov. 1791, Percival Ashley of Freetown. 

90. Elijah b. 1772; m. 22 Dec. 1796, Chloe Smith. 



91 
92 

93 

94 



Samuel m. 12 Nov. 1797, Jemima Easterbrooks. 
Joshua b. 1769; m. 3 Sept. 1795, Chloe LeBarron. 
Levi b. *2 June 1779; m. 12 Sept. 1802, Hannah Fobes. 
Asa m. 2 Dec. 1805, Lucinda Rounsville. 



41 

Jeremiah Macomber (Matthew 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born probably in Tiverton, R. I., married 3 Aug. 1761, 
Lois Austin. He was then of Middleton, R. I. He was 
"deceased" before 1783. Only one son is known. 

John m. Ruth Taber, 23 March 1794, dau. of Samuel. 

Mary m. Clarke Taggart, 5 June 1783, in Middleton. 

Elizabeth m. Wm. Taggart, 6 Feb. 1791, in Middleton. 



112 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

42 

Gideon Macomber (Matthew 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born probably in Tiverton, R. I., married, 23 Aug. 1752, Sarah, 
dau. of George and Abigail (Richmond) Manchester at Dart- 
mouth, Mass. She was born 18 March 1736. The following 
children are recorded at Dartmouth. He was a Revolutionary- 
soldier from Mansfield, Mass. He was living in Cambridge, 
Duchess Co., N. Y., in 1790, as was also his son George. 

Meribah b. 24 Sept. 1753; m. Shubal Sherman, 25 Nov. 

1773- 
Humphrey b. 14 Dec. 1756. 

94. a. George b. 9 July 1758; m. Peace Case, 25 March 1781. 

Abigail b. 17 April 1764; m. Thomas Case, 30 Jan. 1780. 

Susannah b. 30 March 1765; m. 2 Nov. 1789, George 

Case? 

Gideon b. 12 June 176 — . 

Sarah b. 4 May 17(3 — ; m. Laban Allen? 

43 
Jonathan Macomber (supposed. to be son of Joseph 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), of Charleston, R. I., married, 8 Sept. 
1765, Sarah Varse of Westerly, R. I. Children recorded in 
Charleston : 

Abigail b. 17 June 1767. 
Annie b. 30 Dec. 1769. 
Benjamin b. 5 May 1772. 
Sarah b. 13 Nov. 1774. 

95. Joseph b. 24 Aug. 1782; m. Fannie . 

Diana b. 4 Oct. 1798. 

44 
Abiel Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 3 Oct. 1729, married, 27 May 1756, 

Rest, dau. of Peter and Susannah ( ) Devol. She was 

born 6 Oct. 1732, and died after 1812. He died 27 July 1812. 
Buried on his farm, at Westport Point. Children recorded with 
the Society of Friends in Westport, Mass. 

96. Pardon b. 5-16-1757; m. Deborah Coffin. 
Rhoda b. 5-10-1758; unmarried. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Ix 3 



Susanna b. 4-14-1760; m. Nathaniel Macomber, 26 Jan. 

I785- 
Peter b. 10-12-1762. Not named in his father's will. 
Virtue b. 9-20-1765 ; d. 9-7-1843. Unm. 
97. Levi b. 4-29-1768; m. Avis Woodle. 

Rest b. 1-9-1770; m. David Wood, 1-18-1786. 
Abiel b. 3-14-1772; m. Judith Petty, 11 Oct. 1817. 
Lydia b. 10-27-1774; m. Daniel Anthony, 3 May 1798. 

45 
John Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 26 Dec. 1734, married Mary Deuel, or 
Davol, and settled in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y. He was a 
Friend. He died 13 April 1802. His wife was born 31 March 
1745, and died 4 April 1802. Children: 

Patience b. 29 April 1760; m. Caleb Palmer? d. 10 Aug. 

1833- 
Son b. 14 Dec. 1761 ; d. 29 Feb. 1763. 

Son b. 19 March 1763; d. 14 April 1763. 
^98. Wesson b. 12 March 1764; m. Mary Mosher. 

Hannah b. 18 Nov. 1765; m. 24 Feb. 1786, Moses Gage; 
d. 20 Apr. 1816. 
99. John b. 6 Oct. 1767; m. Mary Briggs. 

Mary b. 2 July 1769; m. Feb. 1786, Sims Gage; d. 12 

March, 1801. 
Lydia b. 14 Nov. 1771 ; m. 4 March 1789, Abraham 

Mosher. 
Ruth b. 4 Oct. 1773. 
^100. Benjamin b. 2 June 1775; m. Mary Gage. 

Zillah b. 6 March 1777; m. Perry Potter; d. Feb. i860. 
Sarah b. 11 Oct. 1778; m. 1 Dec. 1805, Esock Wilbur; d. 
27 April 1864. 

- 101. Jeremiah b. 31 March 1781 ; m. Allen. 

Joseph b. 14 June 1783 ; m. Maria Hammond, who d. s. p. 
Margaret b. 8 Sept. 1785; m. Eliakim Hammond; d. 

Feb. 1 87 1. 
Phebe b. 19 July 1787; m. Abraham Davis; d. abt. 1846. 



114 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

4 6 

David Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married at Nine Partners, N. Y., 15 

June 1769, Hannah, dau. of Nathaniel and Lydia ( ) Brown, 

born 17 Dec. 1747. He was living in Cambridge, Duchess Co., 
N. Y., in 1790, with probably three daughters besides the follow- 
ing children, who are recorded in Quaker Records of Nine 
Partners : 

William b. 26 Oct. 1770. 

Elizabeth b. 17 Feb. 1772. 

Phebe b. 20 Feb. 1773. 

Daniel b. 2 June 1774. 

Peace b. 7 Dec. 1775. 

47 

James Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 

born in Dartmouth, Mass., married . In 1790 he 

was living in Cambridge, Duchess Co., N. Y., with probably wife, 
son and daughter. Not traced. 

48 

Joshua Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouh, Mass., is probably the one who married, 17 
March, 1785, Hannah Wilbur at Nine Partners, N. Y. He was 
then of Saratoga. The census of 1790 records him as Joseph 
McComber, living in Saratoga, with probably two sons and two 
daughters. Tradition says that he married Hannah Watson 
(perhaps error for Wilbur) and early settled in Granville, N. Y. 
He spelled his name McOmber. A Joshua Macomber of Gran- 
ville, N. Y., had recorded, in Westport, Mass., 6 Sept. 1809, 
intentions of marriage with Mercy Brownell of Westport. Chil- 
dren according to tradition : 

John m. Lucretia Stewart, his cousin. 

Laura. 

Mary. 

49 
George Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 15 July 1781, Rhoda Grin- 
nell of Tiverton, and had at least two sons that lived in 
Dartmouth. 

William b. 1784; m. 12 Dec. 1805, Lucinda, dau. of 
Lewis Allen of Tiverton. He d. in Westport, Mass., 7 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY lie 

Nov. 1861, aged 77 yrs. 8 mos. Did he m. (2) Fannie 
Pierce 7 Sept. 1828 in Dartmouth? 

102. Jonathan m. 3 March 181 1, Cynthia Briggs. 
Probably two other sons. 

50 
Wesson Macomber (William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 14 Sept. 1775, Mary, dau. of 
Jonathan and Martha (Carr) Hart, born 17 Oct. 1757 probably. 
His will, dated 6 March 1816 and probated 1 Aug. 1843, names 
the following children : 

103. Isaac b. 11 July 1776; m. Anna Weeden. 

104. Jacob b. 26 Feb. 1778; m. Nancy Petty, 10 Feb. 1805. 

105. Wesson b. 30 Aug. 1800; m. Catherine Tripp, pub. 8 

Oct. 1819. 
Peace m. George Lawton, Jr., 5 Jan. 1809. 

Mary m. Martin Besse, 16 June 181 1. (2) Tripp. 

Alice m. Adam Lawton, 19 Feb. 1812. 
Martha m. Henry Snell, 21 Oct. 1810. 
Thankful m. John Cornell, Jr., 15 April 1813. 
Judah m. Joseph Briggs, 29 Dec. 181 5. 
Lydia d. 10 Sept. 1844, aged 56. 
Hannah m. Ichabod Tripp, 22 Jan. 1819. 

5i 

Samuel Macomber (Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 )., 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 8 July 1739, had recorded intentions 
of marriage with Rachel Mosher, 15 May 1761. His name does 
not appear in the land records. In the census of 1790 he appears 
in Westport with four sons under sixteen years of age and two 
females in his family. He is not mentioned in the direct tax of 
1798. Samuel Macomber and Mary Fisher had intentions of 
marriage recorded in Westport 10 Nov. 1795. The following 
may have been his son : 

Samuel Macomber m. in Providence, R. I., 17 Nov. 1818, 
Abby Maxfield, prob. dau. of Edmund. She d. in Providence, 22 
Nov. 1861, aged 61. They had a son, 

Frederick b. in Dartmouth abt. 1826; m. 6 Jan. 1853, in Tiv- 
erton, R. I., Rowena B. Grinnell, dau. of William and Amy, b. 



Il6 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

abt. 183 1 in Fall River. They were then of Providence. Ch., 
Emma R. b. abt. 1853, m. 10 Oct. 1872 Charles H. Wilcox; and 
George B. b. abt. 1858 in Fall River, m. 12 Oct. 1898 in Dedham, 
Mass., L. Grace Clark. 

52 
Elijah Macomber (Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 4 May 1740, married Hannah Gidley. 
Published 30 Jan. 1789. He was a soldier of the Revolution. 
The following children are recorded in Dartmouth : 

106. Eliphalet b. — Oct. 1790; m. Mercy Kilby, 20 Nov. 

1815. 

Lilley b. — Oct. 1793; m. 3 June 1819, Ann Corey, dau. 
of Caleb and Mercy. He d. 3 Sept. 1878. She d. 5 
Nov. 1898, aged 100-9-3. They had one dau. Ardelia 
D., who m. James Allen of Westport, Mass. Pub. 28 
Oct. 1843. She d. 6 Mch. 1907, aged 86-1 1-10. 

Susannah b. 18 Jan. 1795; m. Elihu Gifford. Pub. 2 
June 18 18. 

Chloe b. — June 1797; m. Philip H. Gidley, 15 Apr. 
1820. 

107. Elijah b. 24 Aug. 1799; m. Sarah Brightman, 24 

Dec. 1820. 

108. Daniel b. 8 July 1802; m. Judith Slocum, (2) Phebe 

Slocum. 

109. Gilbert b. 2 April 1804; m. Mariah Brigham. 

no. John b. — June 1806; m. Comfort Wilcox, 16 June 1833. 
Hannah b. 27 April 1808; m. Walter D. Swan 12 Mch. 

1834. 
Sylvia b. 15 Jan. 181 1 ; m. Benjamin Baker 6 Apr. 1831. 

53 

Daniel Macomber (Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 2 November, 1744, married Rebecca 
Kirby, 19 June 1763. He was living at Pawling, Duchess Co., 
N. Y., in 1790, with twelve in his family. Children recorded in 
Dartmouth : 

John b. 19 July 1763. 

Sylvia b. 29 Oct. 1765. 

Daniel b. 4 July 1767. 

Samuel b. 5 Aug. 1769. 

Richard b. 7 Dec. 1771. 



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54 
William Macomber (Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 26 March 1740, married, 11 
May 1760, Sarah, clan, of John and Mary (Thurston) Brownell 
of Little Compton, R. I., born 30 May 1737. Lived in Westport, 
Mass. He died 9 June 1824. He was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion. His will, dated 16 June 1823, names the following children: 
in. Gilbert b. 14 Oct. 1761 ; m. Nancy Wood, 20 Jan. 1791. 

112. Roger b. about 1763; m. Anne Waterman. 

113. Thurston b. ; m. Rhoda Mosher. 

John b. ; m. 10 Jan. 1793, Mary Channing of 

Newport, R. I. Said to have settled near Chicago. 

114. William b. ; m. Rachel Brightman, 16 Sept. 1804. 

115. Simeon b. 21 Jan. 1783; m. Abigail Hoxie, 29 Dec. 1804. 
Mary m. Nathaniel Potter, 26 March 1807. 

Sarah, unmarried. 

Elizabeth died 22 March 1847, aged 83 yrs. Unm. 

Margaret m. John Palmer, 29 April 1784. 

55 
Timothy Macomber (Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 9 Jan. 1772, Abigail, 
dau. of John and Mary (Thurston) Brownell of Little Compton, 
R. I., born 12 Feb. 1745. The inventory of his estate was ren- 
dered 1 July 1800. Children as shown by division of estate. 

116. Ephraim b. 20 Oct. 1776; m. Ruth Healey, (2) Hannah 

Miller. 

Jonathan b. ; m. 4 May 1808, Nancy Davenport. 

Lived in Temple and Freeport, Me. Died over 80 
years of age. Two daus. 

117. Gardner b. ; m. Sylvesta Little, (2) Elizabeth Miller. 

118. John b. 31 May 1782; m. Abigail Miller. 

Mary b. ; m. Nicholas Little of Westport. 

Elizabeth b. ; m. Jonathan Mosher, 17 June 1804. 

56 
Michael Macomber (Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 1 Jan. 1732-3, was published in 
Dartmouth, 10 July 1755, to Mary Macomber of Dartmouth, per- 
haps dau. of Samuel and Mary (Tripp) Macomber. He mar- 



Il8 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

ried, perhaps second, 9 Sept. 1773, Sarah, dau. of Stephen Man- 
chester of Tiverton. He was a revolutionary soldier. Children 
recorded in Tiverton, where he was living in 1790. 

118. a. Abner b. 30 Oct. 1775; m. Phebe Estes. 

Michael b. 18 Aug. 1777. (There d. at New Bedford, 
30 June 1854, George, son of Michael E. and Sarah 
Macomber, aged 20-2-9). 
James b. 18 March 1782. 
Children of Michael and Eddy Macomber recorded in Free- 
town, Mass. (Widow Edna Macomber m. 28 Sept. 1794, John 
Perry). 

Mary b. 29 Jan. 1785 ; m. Joseph Keene? 

Rebecca b. 28 March 1788; m. Edward Brownell of Dart- 
mouth, 10 Nov. 1 816? 
Other daughters. 

57 
Benjamin Macomber (Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 24 Dec. 1742; married, 8 Jan. 
1763, Sarah, dau. of Benjamin and Sarah (Russell) King, born 
25 Aug. 1745. Children recorded in Tiverton. He died before 
6 March 1783. 

Elizabeth b. 2 Jan. 1765; prob. died young. 
Ruth b. 31 Jan. 1767; m. Pardon Lake? 

119. Job b. 27 June 1768; m. Susanna Palmer, 
Benjamin b. May 1770; m. 20 Oct. 1793 Eleanor, dau. 

of Benj. Hambley, deceased. Benj. Macomber was then 
of "New Galoway." 

58 
Ephraim Macomber (Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 5 March 1749-50, married, 20 
Sept. 1767, Patience Fish. He probably died July 1839. Children 
recorded in Tiverton. Revolutionary soldier, a pensioner 4 Mch. 
1831. 

Comfort b. 15 Dec. 1767; pub. to Warren Gifford of 

Westport 21 Nov. 1799. 
Sarah b. 19 March 1769. 
Eber b. 10 Feb. 1771. 
Joseph b. 15 March 1773; "went West." 



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Ann b. 4 April 1775. 

120. Ephraim b. 27 Jan. 1778; m. Alary Sanford. 
Jesse b. 17 May 1780. 

Richard b. 25 April 1782 ; m. 9 Oct. 1803, Lavinia Butts. 

121. John b. 29 March 1784; m. Lydia . 

Patience b. 19 Sept. 1786; m. Cory Williston? 
Deliverance b. 24 Dec. 1788; m. Edward Simmons. 
Benjamin b. 21 Sept. 1790. 

Peace b. 19 March 1793; m. 6 Oct. 1816, Lawton Brown 
at Little Compton, R. I. 

59 
Abiel MacO'MBER (Jeremiah 4 , Abiel 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), bap- 
tized in New Haven, Conn., 28 Sept. 1740, married Abigail Sher- 
rod, or Sherwood. She died, a widow, in New Haven, 28 June 
1816, aged 62 yrs. Children: 

Sherwood b. 1773; d. 19 April 1778, aged 5 yfs. 

Sherwood b. ; m. 16 March 1809, Comfort Somers. 

Had son, Andrew Messenger, bapt. June 1813. 
Esther b. 1779; bapt. 19 July 1795, aged 16 yrs., m. 
Christopher Law. 

122. Thomas b. 1783; m. Mehitable Allen. 
Nancy probably ; m. Alanson Bartholomew. 
Elizabeth probably ; m. John Hunt, about 1810. 

60 
Zebedee Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., 4 Dec. 1733, married Elizabeth, dan. of 
William Cornell. Published 30 Aug. 1755. He died 8 Sept. 
1778. Did his widow marry Luke Ellis 11 March 1784? Chil- 
dren recorded in Dartmouth : 

123. Perry b. 3 Aug. 1756; m. Rachel Gifford. 

Lillie b. 17 June 1761 ; m. 11 Mch. 1778 Samuel Gifford. 

61 
John Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 5 May 1735, had recorded, 2 April 1757, inten- 
tions of marriage with Hannah Hart. She was dau. of Capt. 
Richard and Mary (Taber) Hart, born 5 Dec. 1730 in Little 
Compton, R. I. He does not appear in the land records, nor in 



120 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

the census of 1790, nor in the direct tax of 1798, but he is named 
in the will of his father, 17 Feb. 1798. 

"John Macomber of Dartmouth died on board the schooner 
Rainbow, Joseph Howland master, 14 Sept. 1796." — Town 
Records of New Bedford. Perhaps this was son of the above. 

Elisha Macomber, son of John and Mary, was born in Dart- 
mouth abt. 1775. He m. at Plymouth, Mass., 2 Aug. 1802, "Mary 
Gullifer," both of Plymouth. She d. in New Bedford, 7 Sept, 
1857, aged 73, dau. of Charles and Margaret "Galiver," born in 
Philadelphia. Elisha Macomber d. in New Bedford, 5 January 
1855, aged 80. 

Elisha, son of Elisha and Mary Macomber, d. in New Ber- 
ford, 14 Oct. 1873, aged 51, born in Dartmouth, mariner and 
cooper. He m. Margaret J. New, who d. in New Bedford, 21 
Nov. 189 1, aged 81-5-6. They had a son. 

Thomas S. Macomber b. in New Bedford, 29 Jan. 1850, m. 26 
Aug. 1872, Annie F. DeWolf. He d. in New Bedford, 4 June 
1888. A dau. Maud V. was born 13 May 1873. 

Another son of John Macomber may have been Anson Macom- 
ber of Dartmouth, who m. 20 Feb. 1783, Grace Brownell. Both 
signed a deed in 1820. He was a Revolutionary soldier. The 
census of 1790 shows probably four sons and a daughter. Chil- 
dren recorded in Dartmouth were Robert b. 1 Feb. 1784; Thomas 
b. 15 Aug. 1785; and Job b. 21 Jan. 1787. His dau. may have 
been Grace B., who m. 8 Nov. 1817, John B. Taber in New 
Bedford. 

62 

Philip Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., 22 Aug. 1738, married, 27 May 1762, 
Susannah, dau. of Capt. Richard and Mary (Taber) Hart of 
Little Compton, R. I. He removed to Nine Partners, Duchess 
Co., N. Y., where he died 10 Oct. 1831. His wife was born 7 
April 1744, and died in 1827. They belonged to the Society of 
Friends. Children recorded in Friends' Records at Dartmouth. 
Edith b. 27 April 1763; m. 4 Dec. 1788, John White, at 
Nine Partners. 

124. Gardner b. 25 Nov. 1764; m. Hannah Deuel. 

125. Barnabas b. 1 July 1768; m. Kezia Hoag. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 121 

♦Abraham b. 27 March 1775; m. the dau. of an Indian 
chief. 
Hannah b. 8 May 1780. 

63 

Abiel Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., 26 Jan. 1745, married, 5 Feb. 1767, Phebe 
Brightman. He died 10 July 1821. She died 14 April 1831, 
aged 84 yrs. 2 mos. Both buried in Westport. His will names 
two children : 

126. Wanton b. — June 1768; m. Hannah Wilcox, (2) Judith 

Potter. 

127. Charles b. — Oct. 1769; m. Peace Gifford. 

♦George Elliott McOmber, descended from Barnabas Macom- 
ber, wrote in 1894, that a brother of Barnabas Macomber "left his 
father's home, went to Canada, where he married a daughter of 
the chief of the Caughnewagas (I am not sure I spell the name 
correctly), a tribe of Indians in the Province of Ontario west of 
Montreal, himself became chief of the tribe and father of children, 
whose children used often in my father's lifetime to come to our 
house, and who although bearing all the facial marks of North 
American Indians, showed education and refinement, the result, I 
believe, of scholarship at Oberlin College, Ohio." — Letter to Alice 
Macomber, now Mrs. R. B. Greenwood, Providence, R. I. 

64 

Noe Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 25 Jan. 1748, married Ruth Brightman. Pub- 
lished 28 May 1774. Both were living in Westport in 1797, when 
they signed a deed. Children so far as learned : 
Huldaii m. May 1800, Nathaniel Soule. 
Lucy m. June 1807, John Castino. 

Noah m. 8 June 1810, Mary, dau. of David and Deighton 
(Merrick) Miller of Fall River. Blacksmith. Living 
in Tiverton in 1830. She d. 10 Sept. 1878, aged 90-1-9. 

128. Ellery b. — June 1796; m. Mercy Francis, (2) Abigail 

Bliss. 
Probably others. 



122 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

65 

Archer Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., 4 April 1751, married 14 Sept. 1775, Eunice 
Cornell of Dartmouth, born 13 Feb. 1757. He lived as a farmer 
in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y. Belonged to the Society of 

Friends. Had second wife Margaret . He died 29 May 

1832. Children: 

129. Rescom b. 23 March 1776; m. Esther Howland. 
Jedediah b. 3 March 1778. 

Betsey b. 13 May 1781. 

130. Zebedee b. 8 Oct. 1785; m. Rebecca Johnson. 
Ruth b. 17 May 1786. 

131. Archer b. 28 June 1789; m. Patience Tripp. 

132. Elihu C. b. 9 Sept. 1793; m. Mary Green, (2) Elizabeth 

C. Wood. ' 
Eunice b. 9 Oct. 1795. 
Smith b. 24 May 1800. 

66 
Constant Macomber (Philip 1 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 5 Dec. 1776, Mrs. Mary 
(Earle) Hicks, widow of Oliver Hicks and dau. of John and 
Tabitha (Hall) Earle of Portsmouth, R. I. He was a soldier of 
the Revolution. Lived in Dartmouth. Children : 

Jarvis m. 19 March 1805, Christina Sherman. Said to 
have moved to Canada. 

Alexander m. . Lived in Gallipolis, Ohio. 8 or 

9 children. 
Alfred m. 17 June 1808, Abigail Pierce in Middleboro. 
His inventory is dated 4 May 1813. 

133. John b. 1800; m. Harriet Allen, (2) Hannah B. Tabor. 
Tabitha m. Warren Gifrord. Pub. 25 Dec. 1795. She 

d. abt. 1840, aged 57. Both were preachers among the 
Friends. 

134. Alden b. 20 Oct. 1792; m. Elizabeth Cornell. 
Clarissa m. Philip Davis. Pub. 27 July 1796. 
Sophia b. 26 July 1795; m. 15 Jan. 1812, Squire Gifford; 

d. 1889. 

135. Otis m. Abby Gladding, (2) Maria Meigs. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 23 

67 

Humphrey Macomber (Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married (i) Phebe Brightman. Pub- 
12 Dec. 1778. He married (2) 9 March 1817, widow Mary 
Manchester, who died, a widow, 1 Aug. 1846, aged 81, in West- 
port, Mass. He was a soldier of the Revolution. Children by 
first marriage : 

136. Zebedee b. 15 Feb. 1779; m. Sarah Earl. 

137. Varnum b. 6 Feb. 1788; m. Lydia Davis. 
Richard, unmarried. 

Amy m. 14 May 1809, Job Shaw of New Bedford. 

Nancy b. abt. 1785 ; m. Gideon Taber, 28 Dec. 1800. 

Judith P. b. 1800; d. 10 Nov. 1856. Unm. 

James V. d. 8 Feb. 1875, aged 85-0-0. 
Children by second marriage : 

Alexander m. 25 Feb. 1840, Clarinda, dau. of Nathan 
Wood. He d. 25, Nov. 1884, aged 67-6-13. Had one 
child, Amanda, who d. 10 Apr. 1847, a g e( l 4 vrs - 2 9 dys. 

Mary Ann b. 4 Feb. 1821 ; m. 1843, Pardon Macomber; 
d. 13 Jan. 1847. 

Maria L. b. 1823 ; m. 9 May 1843, Pardon C. Potter. 

68 
Caleb Macomber (John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in 
Dartmouth, Mass., 22 May 1747, married, 20 Oct. 1768, Rachel, 

dau. of George and Deborah ( ) Wilbur. She married 

(2) 21 Nov. 1782, Jeremiah Smith. Caleb Macomber had one 
son. 

138. Caleb m. Esther Baker. 

69 
Nathaniel Macomber (John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., 7 Nov. 1754, married, 26 Jan. 1785, 
Susannah, dau. of Abiel and Rest (Devol) Macomber. He died 
22 Oct. 1839 and was buried in the Friends' Yard, at Westport, 
Mass. His wife, born 14 April 1760, died 22 Sept. 1842. 
Children : 

139. John b. 11-7-1785; m. Mary Slade. 
Hannah b. 9-7-1787; m. James Sheppard. 
Rest b. 11-15-1789; m. Job Wright. 



124 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

140. Cornelius b. 11-22-1791 ; m. Mahala Fisher. 
David b. 1 -22-1794; d. 12-19-1868. Unm. 

141. Caleb b. 9-29-1796; m. Abby Gifford. 

Mercy b. 2-7-1800; m. 27 Nov. 1828, Nathaniel Gifford; 

d. 24 Nov. 1889. 
Mary b. 1-19-1803; d. 2-6-1852. 

70 
Joshua Macomber (James 4 , John 3 , William 2 William 1 ), born 
in Dartmouth, Mass., 17 Dec. 1756, married, 25 Oct. 1780, Mar- 
tha, dau. of Ephraim and Judith (Brownell) Potter, born 24 June 
1759, and is, perhaps, the one who settled in Greenfield, Sara- 
toga Co., N. Y., and had three children. Family in Westport, 
1790, consisted of himself and four females. 

Abigail. Unm. Lived with her brother Benjamin. 

142. William b. 1795; m. Nancy Barnes. 

Benjamin. Unm. Lived on the homstead at Greenfield. 

7i 
Abner Macomber (William 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 

born in Westport, Mass., 2 June 1748, married, 17 Jan. 1775, Isa- 
bel Mosher. According to the census of 1790 he was living in 
Westport, having three sons under sixteen and three daughters. 
He is named in his father's will, 18 Aug. 1801. He is not 
in the direct tax list of 1798. The following were probably his 
children : 

143. James m. Nancy Bailey. 

144. Wilbur m. Rhoda Manchester. 

David m. prob. Elizabeth Peckham. A son, George H., 

m. Louisa Downing, 2 Jan. 1843. 
Sarah m. Hall of Newport, R. I. 

72 
Peter Macomber (William 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 
in Westport, Mass., married (1) Elizabeth Mosher. Published 9 
Dec. 1786. He married (2) 15 April 1793, Rhoda Allen, dau. of 
John and Betty. The census of 1790 shows him living in West- 
port with a son under sixteen and three females in his family. 
He appears in the direct tax of 1798 in Westport. He was execu- 
tor of his father's will in 1801. A Peter McCumber, probably the 



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I2 5 



same, settled, in 1816, in Baldwin, Chemung Co., N. Y., said to 
have come from Providence, R. I. Family untraced. 

73 

William Macomber (Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 1 May 1746, married, 15 Oct. 
1764, Ruth, dau. of Cornelius and Sarah (Ford) White, fifth in 
descent from Peregrine White of the Mayflower. She was born 
11 April 1746, and died 10 Aug. 1833. He lived on the ancestral 
estate in Marshfield. He was commissioned Ensign by Governor 
Thomas Hutchinson, but gave up his commission at the begin- 
ning of the Revolution, being a Tory. He died 7 July 181 5, and 
was buried in a tomb not far from his home, at Marshfield Hills, 
Mass. Children : 

145. William b. 22 July 1767; m. Sarah Hatch. 

Ruth b. 14 March 1770; m. 19 April 1785, Joseph Phil- 
lips.. Ch., Ruth (Sprague), Polly, and Mercy (Tilden). 

146. Charles b. 18 July 1780; m. Dorothy Hitchcock. 

74 
Thomas Macomber (Onesimus 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 31 May 1746, married, 12 July 
1767, Leah Tilden, born in Marshfield, Feb. 1746. She died 3 
April 1831. He died 15 July 1833. He lived in Marshfield, 
where the births of three children are recorded. 

147. Thomas b. 20 July 1768; m. Betsey Curtis, (2) Becca 

Bowker. 

John b. 28 Jan. 1770; d. 29 April 1835. A deed shows 
that he was a blacksmith at Appleton Ridge, Lincoln 
Co., Me., in 1810. He married and had a family in 
Waldoboro, Me., as relatives in Hanson, Mass., say. 

Onesimus (or Sarah?) b. 3 Feb. 1772. So read the town 
records, but records of the family in Hanson, Mass., say, 
Polly, b. 1778 and d. 1796. 

Deacon Thomas Macomber (Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass, 2 Aug. 1748, married, 28 
July 1768, Prudence Stetson, probably dau. of Joshua and Mary, 



126 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

of Scituate, Mass., born 19 March 1750. He removed to Bridge- 
water, Mass., and thence to North Jay, Maine, about 1804. He 
married, (2) Susanna Howard. He lived on "Macomber Hill," 
now owned by George R. Macomber. He died 28 March 1829. 
His first three children are recorded in Marshfield. 

Joanna b. 20 Aug. 1769; m. Joseph Alden; d. 18 Feb. 
1851. 

Mary b. 23 July 1771 ; m. Austin Knox. 

148. Thomas b. 17 Aug. 1773 ; m. Phebe Lincoln. 

149. Joseph b. 1776; m. Olive Reynolds. 

150. Ichabod b. 5 Nov. 1777; m. Sally Howard, (2) Abigail 

W. Brown. 

151. Isaac b. ; m. Elizabeth Austin. 

152. Winchester b. 4 May 1780; m. Polly Stearns. 

Mercy b. ; m. Samuel Jackson; d. 13 May 1857. 

Prudence b. ; m. Daniel Austin and d. in Canton, 

Maine. 

SIXTH GENERATION 
76 

Samuel Macomber (Jonathan 5 , John 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ) born in Berkshire County, Mass., removed with his father 
to Shelburne, Vt., and thence to Essex, N. Y., where he was living 
during the War of 1812. He married widow Urania (Stillwell) 
Havens at Essex. Children : 

Sanford L. lawyer in N. Y. City. Member of the Legisla- 
ture in 1850. Died in N. Y. in 1882. 

John K. b. abt. 1819. Was in the Post Office of N. Y. City 
over forty years. Living in 1899. 

James William b. 1823 in Troy, N. Y. Removed with his 
parents to Ontario Co. Joined the N. Y. Conf. of the M. E. 
Church in 1849. Married (1) 1852, Antoinette, dau. of Edmund 
Driggs of Brooklyn, N. Y., who died eleven months later leaving 
an infant daughter, (2) abt. 1855, at Keeseville, N. Y., a dau. of 
Rev. W. S. Winans and had two sons. 

77 
Abiathar Macomber (Abiathar 5 , John 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Westmoreland, N. H., 13 June 1790, married Han- 
nah, dau. of John and Susanna (White-Pierce) White, born 12 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 27 

Feb. 1792. Lived in Taunton, Mass. He died 8 Nov. 1827 
She died 27 May 1872. Children : 

Abishai b. 10 April 1812; m. Abigail Dean; d. 29 Jan. 
1885. She d. in Taunton 15 Sept. 1882, aged 72. One 
dau. Lucy E. b. 1833, m - 2 ^ Sept. 1852, Joseph T. 
Haines of Taunton, Mass. 
Hannah b. 2 March 1815; m. 5 July 1835, Job Hall; d. 
4 Dec. 1887. 

153. Bradford b. 15 Dec. 1817; m. Mary Hazlett. 
John Richmond b. 1820; d. 24 Aug. 1849. Unm. 
Clarissa Howard b. 15 Sept. 1823; m. 5 May 1844, 

Simon W. Goff. 
Abby b. 6 June 1826; m. Nov. 1844, James Price. 

78 
Lemuel Macomber (Lemuel 5 , Henry 4 , William*, John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born at Walpole, N. H., Oct. 1801, married Lucy, dau. 
of James and Ruth (Sherburn) Philbrick of Goshen, N. H. He 
died at Langdon, N. H., 16 Aug. 1874, aged yT> y rs - IO mos - She 
died in Boston, Mass., 11 March 1878, aged 72 yrs. 7 mos. and was 
buried at Langdon, N. H. Children : 

154. Horatio G. b. ; m. Sarah Arnojd. 

Henry b. in Goshen, N. H. ; m. Lucinda Clark. Soldier 
in the Mexican War. Lived in Boston, Mass. 

155. Daniel b. abt. 1843; m. Ellen M. French, (2) Julia A. 

Leek. 
Mary Ann m. Moses Pearson of Boston. 
Almira m. a Mr. Merchant. 
Laura. 
Julia. 
Warren J. d. in Boston 15 Aug. 1852, aged 18 yrs. 9 mos. 

78 a. 
Bryant Macomber (Lemuel 5 , Henry 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Taunton; married, 30 Jan. 181 1, Priscilla Briggs, 
at Fall River, Mass., and had the following children recorded 
there. He is said to have died in the South. She married (2) 

Haynes, (3) Bailey Hathaway, and died at age of 76 

years. 



128 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

155. a. John Arnold b. 11 Oct. 1812; m. Jerusha S. Hart. 

Sarah H. b. 28 July 1814; m. Andrew C. Davenport, 29 

May 1831. 
Rhoda B. b. 15 Feb. 1816; m. Banuel Head, 14 July 1833. 

79 

Gideon Macomber (Simeon 5 , Stephen 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Middleborough, Mass., married, 16 Oct. 1809, 
Huldah Simmons. He died in Middleborough 1 Nov. 1850, aged 
y$ yrs. She died 23 April 1849, aged 66 yrs. See records of 
Middleborough, Mass. 

Nancy b. 5 Feb. 1810; m. 29 Nov. 1832 Silas F. Soule; d. 15 
Nov. 1883, at Wareham, Mass. 

Stephen b. 24 Dec. 1812 ; d. 27 Sept. 1854 in Wareham, Mass. ; 
m. 24 Dec. 1840, Henrietta Capen in Boston, who d. 25 Feb. 1841. 
A son, Elmer, d. young. 

Eliza b. 1 Aug. 181 3. 

Gideon R. b. in Middleborough, 13 May 1819; d. 31 Aug. 1843. 

80 
Luther Crane Macomber (Luther 5 , Stephen 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born 1800 in Middleborough, Mass., married, 
15 April 1827, Polly Eaton, dau. of Enos and Polly. He died 25 
Sept. 1865, aged 65. She died 15 Jan. 1864, aged 63 yrs. 5 mos. 
Children : 

156. Isaac b. 16 Oct. 1827; m. 18 May 1852, Celia White. 
Mary Thompson b. 23 Sept. 1829; m. 21 Jan. 1879, 

Nathaniel Leonard of Middleboro. 
Ellen Frances b. 15 Feb. 1833 5 d. 2 3 J une J 854- Unm. 

157. Elbridge H. b. 6 March 1835 ; m. Thalia Maria Keith. 
Alonzo D. b. 13 Jan. 1837; m. Hester G. , 18 Oct. 

1869. She was born 20 May 1842. No ch. 
Martin, died 13 June 1840, aged 5 months. 

81 
Calvin T. Macomber (Luther 5 , Stephen 4 , William 3 , John 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Middleborough, Mass., 20 Jan. 1813, married, 
11 July 1846, Eliza J., dau. of Abiel and Eliza (Landros) Shurt- 
leff of Carver, Mass. He died 24 June 1881. She died 20 Sept. 
1894, aged 70 yrs. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 129 

Herbert Calvin b. 21 May 1849. Unm. Lives in Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

William Gordon b. 28 June 185 1 ; d. 22 Feb. 1852. 
Flora Louise b. 28 June 1855; m. 7 April 1879, Frank M. 
Bickford of Taunton, Mass. 

Charles Luther b. 11 Jan. 1859; unm. One of the proprie- 
tors of the Winthrop Mill, Taunton, Mass. 

Orville b. 13 July 1862; m. (1) 11 Nov. 1891, Alice, dau. of 
Edgar and Sarah (Macomber) Carpenter, who d. 17 Jan. 1895, 
aged 21-2-29; (2) 7 March 1900, Fannie, dau. of George R. and 
Ida (Russell) Woodward. He is Supt. of Winthrop Mill, Taun- 
ton, Mass. Two ch. by first marriage, Calvina Alice b. 2 Feb. 
1892, and Olive Eliza b. 11 Aug. 1893. 

Mary b. 16 Oct. 1865 ; m. 16 Nov. 1892, Joseph W. Lane, who 
was born 24 Jan. 1838. 

82 
David Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Chesterfield, Mass., 20 Oct. 1783, married, 14 Feb. 1809, 
Rhoda, dau. of Abijah Whitton of Chesterfield. He moved to 
Westford, Vt., and died there 14 May 1863. She, born 23 July 
1790, died at Westford, 26 Jan. 1874. Children, born in West- 
ford, Vt. 

Addison b. 3 Dec. 1810; m. 5 Apr. 1843, J ane Ludlow of 

Wisconsin, b. 3 Jan. 1821. At least two children. 
Catherine L. b. 21 Dec. 1812; m. Otis Mixer of Conn., 

11 July 1 84 1. 
Edmund b. 5 Feb. 1815; unm. d. 5 Mch. 1903 in Canada. 
Polly Thrasher b. 5 Sept. 1818; m. 18 Jan. 1842, Timo- 
thy C. Morgan of Westford. 7 ch. 
158. Daniel Whitton b. 25 Jan. 1820; m. (1) Angelia Chace, 
(2) Jane Clark. 
David Halleck b. 24 Apr. 1822; m. 9 Oct. 1862, Emma, 
dau. of Warren and Hannah (Ware) Bliss of Essex, 
Vt., b. 19 Nov. 1836. He d. 10 Apr. 1893, at Westford, 
Vt. She d. 29 Aug. 1883. Ch., Myrtle m. Mor- 
gan ; and Cora m. Longe. 



130 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

William Merrick b. 12 Jan. 1824; m. 5 Feb. 1852, 
Louisa Buck of Westford, b. 17 Sept. 1828. He d. 11 
Mch. 1904, at Jay, Vt. Ch., Ashley and perhaps one 
other. 

Rhoda Ann b. 27 July 1826; m. 13 May 1849, Joseph 
Deming of Westford, Vt. ; d. 9 May 1882, at Under- 
bill, Vt. 

Nancy Miranda b. 2 Jan. 1829; in. 3 July 1862, Eli 
Hobart of Westford, his 2d wife. No ch. 

Jane Sophia b. 15 Apr. 183 1. Unm. Lives in Glen 
Sutton, P. Q. 

83 
Jacob Macomber (David 3 , Jacob*, William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Chesterfield, Mass., 4 Oct. 1786, married, 5 Mch. 1820, 
Elmira, dau. of Solomon and Abigail ( ) Hobart of West- 
ford, Vt. He died 13 April 1865. She, born 8 Nov. 1801, in 
Hollis, N. H., died 18 March 1887, in Westford, Vt. He was a 
farmer and held many town offices in Westford. 

William Harmon b. 30 Dec. 1820; m. 4 May 1876, 
Marietta Eliza Howard. He d. in Westford, Vt., 10 
March 1908. She d. 18 Sept. 1881. One ch. d. young. 

159. James Hervey b. 17 April 1823; m. 1 July 1849, Frances 

Beach. 
Rosaltha Marion b. 10 April 1826; m. 24 May 1846, 

Edward Grow; d. 19 Dec. 1854. 
Elmira Elizabeth b. 27 June 1834; m. 8 June 185 1, 

Philo Jackson ; d. 16 April 1864. 

160. Solomon Hobart b. 12 April 1828; m. 11 May 1851, 

Rebecca Hamblin. 

161. Francis Billings b. 16 May 1843; m - 2 o Oct. 1868, Han- 

nah I. Beach. 

84 

Cyrus Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 24 Sept. 1788, married Dolly 
Williams of Chesterfield. He died 28 Feb. 1875. She died 29 
January 1864, in Westford, Vt. 

Catherine m. Harris Perry of Westford. 

Wiram Riley m. Urania Lyman, (2) Fanny Hurlburt. s. p. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I31 

Amanda M. b. 18 Sept. 1820; m. 18 Aug. 1842, Jonathan 
Whipple Earl ; d. 22 January 1894, in Sioux City. 
Elmira A. d. at Westford, Vt. 
Julia Ann. 

85 

Edmund Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 23 Sept. 1792, married Eliza- 
beth Trow of Cummington. He died 25 July 1829. She died 22 
June 1891, in Essex, Vt. 

Daniel H. m. Sarah A. Beach of Westford, Vt. Residence, 
Essex Junction, Vt. 

William, died 11 March 1825. 

Marshall, died 24 Aug. 1827, aged 6 months. 

86 

Harvey Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 9 March 1794, married the 
widow of his brother Edmund. He died 24 March 1863, at West- 
ford, Vt. Children: 

Elmira Maria b. 4 July 1832. 

John Gilman Lt. in 6th Vt. Regt. Killed in the battle of the 
Wilderness, 6 May 1864. 

87 
Alvan Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 1 Oct. 1797, married, (1) 
27 Nov. 1826, Mercy A. Noyes, who died 7 Nov. 1828; (2) 23 
Feb. 1832, Nancy Burnell, who died 9 June 1854; (3) 21 Aug. 
i860, Malinda (Bates) White of Cummington, who died 14 Dec. 
1882. He died 3 Feb. 1882, in Chesterfield, Mass. One child 
by first marriage : 
162. David Wright b. 29 Oct. 1828; m. Harriet S. Robinson. 
Children by second marriage : 

Chandler Tucker b. 14 Nov. 1832; m. 3 Sept. 1874, 
Wealthy Bisbee. He was a paymaster in the Army in 
the Civil War and was a teacher many years. No ch. 
He died August 1906. 
James Hervey b. 11 Sept. 1834. Surgeon in the Navy. 
Died at Port Royal, S. C, 18 Sept. 1865. 



132 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

163. Sophronia b. 21 Nov. 1836 ; m. Seth A. Healy, 18 Not. 

164. Joseph B. b. 12 Jan. 1839; m. Lydia Bisbee, 14 Nov. 1861. 
Martha G. b. 12 Jan. 1839; d. 3 March 1857. 

88 

Melzar Macomber (David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 17 Sept. 1799, married Annis 
Thayer of Cummington. He died 5 Feb. 1859. She died 5 Jan. 
1868, at Kingsville, Ohio. 

Marion, died young, in Cummington, Mass. 

Mary Imogene. 

Katharine, died young. 

Hitty L. m. Webster. 

Julia V. m. Parish. 

Theron Alexis, lives in Conneaut, Ohio. 

89 
David Macomber (Daniel 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Easton, Mass., 2 July 1786, married, 25 July 1805, 
Phebe, dau. of Mark and Tabitha (Washburn) Perkins of North 
Bridgewater, Mass. She was born 12 May 1788, and died 2 
Aug. 1849. He died 8 Aug. 1863. Lived in Easton, Mass. 
Daniel P. b. 10 July 1806; d. 25 March 1822. 

165. Benjamin F. b. 15 June 1808; m. Mary L. Wade. 
Emily L. b. 3 March 1818; d. 4 Oct. 1853. 

Clarissa U. twin to Emily; m. 15 May 1859, Lucius Bon- 

ney; d. 9 Dec. 1896. 
David b. 19 Jan. 1825 ; d. 12 Feb. 1855. 

90 

Elijah: Macomber (Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Middleboro or Freetown, Mass., abt. 1772; mar- 
ried 22 Dec. 1796, Chloe Smith in Middleboro. He lived in 
Plymouth, Mass., and died there 18 June 1843, aged 71 years. 
Children : 

166. Elijah b. 13 May 1796; m. Deborah Thomas. 

167. John b. 1801 ; m. Eleanor Leonard. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1 33 

168. Warren b. 27 April 1815; m. Jeannette T. Weston. 
Lucia m. Samuel Robbins, 12 Sept. 1830. 

Ann m. William Drew. 

Betsey. 

Hannah. 

Nancy, twin to Hannah. 

9i 
Samuel Macomber (Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Middleborough, , married in Free- 
town, Mass., 12 Nov. 1797, Jemima Easterbrooks, of Freetown, 
and lived in Dartmouth, Mass. His will, dated 17 Sept. 1849, 
and probated 6 Nov. 1849, names four sons and three grand- 
daughters, children of daughter, Mary Hervey. 

169. Alden b. I 79$; m - Mary S. Pease. 

170. Samuel b. 17 Aug. 1803; m. Peace Kirby. 

171. Richard E. b. 25 May 1808; m. Sarah Wady, 21 Jan. 

i833- 

172. Arnold W. b. 1812; m. Catherine J. Wilcox, 4 

July 1839. 
Mary m. Jonathan Hervey of Freetown. 3 daus. 

92 
Joshua Macomber (Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Middleborough, or Freetown, Mass., 1769, mar- 
ried, 3 Sept. 1795, Chloe, dau. of John and Mary (Raymond) 
LeBarron, born 8 May 1773, who died 19 March 1813. He mar- 
ried (2) 11 Sept. 1815, Mercy Andrews of New Bedford. He 
died 7 Jan. 1829, aged 60 years. Children as recorded in Mid- 
dleborough, where he lived. 

Lucinda b. 26 Dec. 1795. 
Mary b. 4 Dec. 1797; d. 4 May 1842. Unm. 
Mehitable b. 10 July 1800; died young. 
Chloe b. 11 June 1802; m. 7 Apr. 1828, George Bowker. 
Elijah LeBarron b. 27 Dec. 1804; m. 11 Sept. 183 1, 
Caroline C. Shores in Taunton, Mass. He d. in Taun- 
ton 29 Jan. 1837. Ch., Rufus Dean b. 29 Oct. 1832, 
d. 14 June 1845, and Maria Keen b. 24 Dec. 1834. 



134 



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173. Joshua L. b. 25 May 1807; m. Hannah D. Cowen. 
Mehitable b. 29 April 1810. 

Levi LeBarron b. 22 June 181 2. 
Children by second marriage: 

174. Simeon Andrews b. 21 May 1816; m. Nancy M. Robin- 

son. 

William Franklin b. 5 March 1819. 

Catherine b. 13 Feb. 1821 ; m. (1) 23 Sept. 1842, Arnold 
Shaw Congdon of New Bedford, (2) 27 Oct. 1862, 
Augustine Staniford of Salem, Mass. She d. 8 Nov. 

1883. 

93 
Levi Macomber (Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Freetown, Mass., 12 June 1779, married, 12 Sept. 1802, 
in Middleborough, Hannah, dau. of Eliab and Mehitable (Ames) 
Fobes of Bridgewater, Mass. She was born 21 June 1782, and 
died 2 May 1858. He died 6 July 1830, in Tiverton, R. I., aged 
51 yrs. He lived some years in Dartmouth, Mass. Children as 
found in a family record : 

Sarah F. b. 6 Jan. 1803; m. 10 July 1823, Pardon Tripp 

of Fairhaven; d. 10 Dec. 1867. Seven ch. 
Levi b. 18 Sept. 1804; m. 28 May 1826, Rhoda Francis 
of Tiverton, R. I. He d. 19 Jan. . Moved to Illi- 
nois. Farmer. Ch., Horace, William, Edward, Levi 
b. 28 Jan. 1844, Theresa b. 1829, m. 31 Dec. 185 1. 
Daniel L. Moulton and Lizzie. 
Son b. 8 Oct. 1806; d. 13 Oct. 1806. 
Daniel F. b. 15 Oct. 1807; d. 8 May 1826. "tJnm. 

175. Orrin b. 13 Dec. 1809; m. Sally Dennis, 7 Nov. 1830. 
Horace b. 27 May 18 12. 

Hannah b. 23 June 1814; m. 28 Oct. 1832, Asa Clifford 

of Westport, Mass. She d. 25 Dec. 1891. Five ch. 
Charles H. b. 1 Dec. 1816; d. 25 April 1899. Unm. 

176. William E. b. 27 Aug. 1819; m. Mary Wilber, (2) Mrs. 

Louisa Snow. 

94 
Asa Macomber (Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), 

born in Middleborough, Mass., in 1782, married, 2 Dec. 1805, 
Lucinda, dau. of Thomas and Philena (Hathaway) Rounsville of 
Freetown, Mass. He died in Freetown 16 July 1847, and was 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 35 

buried there, aged 65. She died in Providence, R. L, 8 March 
1862, aged 78 yrs. Children as gathered from correspondence 
and from public records. 

John R. (or A.) b. 15 Oct. 1807; m. Susan A., dau. of Sanford 
and Susannah (Adams) Tabor. He d. in Acushnet 16 July 1879, 
aged 71-9-2. She d. at Mattapoisett 3 Dec. 1886, aged 83-1-9. 
Children so far as known, Eliza Ann b. 1836; m. John S. Macom- 
ber, son of Andrew and Ruth of Tiverton, 22 Oct. 1865. Susan 
S. b. 1839; m. Edwin Borden, 3 April 1862. Sylvia N. m. John 
S. Manchester, 22 Oct. 1865. 

Hiram m. Mary A. Dunham of Sandwich, Mass., who was b. 
1818. He d. in Taunton March 1858. She m. (2) 5 Dec. 1865, 
Simon Andrews Macomber of Acushnet as his second wife. 
Children of Hiram so far as known : Cynthia b. in New Bedford ; 
d. in Taunton 14 Mch. 1855, aged 18. Lucinda d. in Taunton 20 
Jan. 1858, aged 18 yrs. Hiram N. b. in Dartmouth 10 Nov. 
1844; d. in Fall River 30 Dec. 1871, aged 26-1-20. Mary B. b. 
in 1850; m. in Acushnet 7 May 1869, William B. Bird. 

Hannah S. b. 1818; m. 12 July 1836, Wm. Harrison Tyrrill at 
Bridgewater. She d. a widow, at Acushnet, 7 Feb. 1897, aged 
78 yrs. 8 mos. 

Harrison G. m. (1) Chloe, dau. of Clothier and Rebecca (Has- 
kins) Pierce. Divorced. She m. (2) in Taunton 16 Dec. 1868, 
Joseph Ashley of Lakeville. He m. "(2) in Providence, R. I., 
1 June 1862, Sarah E. Goff. He died about 1885. 

Philena H. b. 1812; m. (1) James Ashley, (2) 

Macomber, (3) at Lakeville, 30 Sept. 1869, Freeman Landers. 

Milton, died in Providence, R. I., 8 Oct. 1840, aged 19 yrs. 

Almira, died in Freetown 2 Feb. 1818, aged 5 yrs. 

Cornelia? m. John Davis. 

94 a. 

George Macomber (Gideon 5 , Matthew 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 9 July 1758, married, 25 
March 1781, Peace Case. He lived in Cambridge, Duchess Co., 
N. Y. Children so far as known: 

Case, said to have lived in Ohio. 
Nathaniel. 
Joseph. 
176. a. Joshua b. 1793; m. Hannah Slack. 
Thankful m. Oliver Slack. 
Sallie m. Justice Burlingham. 



1 36 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

95 

Joseph Macomber (Jonathan 5 , Joseph 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Charleston, R. L, 24 Aug. 1782, married Fan- 
nie and had the following children recorded in Charleston. 

Francis b. 12 Feb. 1809. 

Abigail b. 17 Oct. 1812. 

John R. b. 12 April 1815. 

Martha b. 23 Dec. 1817; m. 12 April 1842, Arnold Hiscox, 
Jr., in Charleston. 

Mary B. b. 21 Dec. 1821. 

96 

Pardon Macomber (Abiel 5 , William 4 , William?, William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 16 May 1757, married at 
Nine Partners, N. Y., 26 July 1785, Deborah Coffin, dau. of Paul 
and Susannah, born 8 Oct. 1764. Children recorded with the 
Society of Friends in Dartmouth. 

Judith b. 19 May 1786. 

William b. 18 Feb. 1788; d. 28 March 1788. 

Susanna b. 13 April 1789. 

Mercy b. 14 April 1791. 

Paul Coffin b. 8 July 1793. 

Joshua b. 2 March 1795. 

97 
Levi Macomber (Abiel 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 29 April 1768, married, 8 May 
1796, Avis, dau. of Gershom Woodle (or Wardell) of Tiverton, 
R. I. He died in Westport, Mass., 14 Oct. 1843. Children: 
Joseph, estate administered in 1822. Unm. 
Benjamin d. unm. 

Peter b. 1806; m. 12 Feb. 1823, Almira Cowen of 

Dartmouth; d. 10 July 1849, a £ e d 43- 2 ch. d. young. A 

dau. Abby m. Shove and went to Maine. Widow 

m. (2) 21 Dec. 1851, Isaac Barrows. 

177. Richard b. 1816; m. 20 Feb. 1835, Hannah Briggs. 

Rachel W. m. 23 Feb. 1837, Sedate Howland in Taunton. 
Maribah D. m 4 Mch. 1841, Henry Nelson Andrews in 

Taunton. 
Thomas. Unm. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1 37 

98 

Wesson Macomber (John 5 , William 4 , William", William 2 , 
William 1 ), born 12 March 1764, married Mary, dau. of Ephraim 
and Elizabeth (Story) Mosher of Washington, Duchess County, 
N. Y., where they had three children. In 1787 he removed to 
Grand Isle, Vt., where he died in 1814. She was born 17 March 
1766 and died 23 April 1842. Children : 

Ephraim b. 17 Jan. 1783; m. — Ricketson. Ch., 

Henry, Hiram and Elizabeth. 

178. Silas b. 12 Jan. 1785 ; m. Bethiah Center. 
Elizabeth b. 3 Nov. 1786; m. Wyman Chamberlain; 

d. 16 March 181 2. 
Sarah b. 18 March 1791 ; m. Erastus Center; d. 2 Mch. 

1843. 
John b. 12 April 1792. 

179. Jonathan b. 5 March 1793; m. Keese. 

180. Joseph b. 3 March 1795; m. Elizabeth Weekes, (2) Lydia 

Anthony. 

Huldah b. 1 Oct. 1797; m. Pattee. 

Mary b. 26 Nov. 1799; m. Mitchell; d. s. p. 10 

Mch. 1870. 

181. Benjamin b. 24 Jan. 1806; m. Hannah Meeker. 

182. Wesson b. 5 Aug. 1809; m. Charlotte Graves. 
Phebe b. 8 April 1814. 

99 
Judge John Macomber (John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 6 Oct. 1767, 
married, 29 Jan. 1789, Mary Briggs and lived in Chesterfield, N. 
Y. She was born 26 June 1772, and died 1 March 1844. He 
died 28 July 1842. His grandson, Albert Macomber of Peru, 
N. Y., has a portrait painting of him. For some years he held 
the office of Judge. 

Hannah b. 8 Dec. 1789; m. Edward Everett, 31 Dec. 

1807. 
Benjamin b. 25 Aug. 1791 ; m. Phebe Hoag, 25 Oct. 
1812. Removed to Green Bay, Wis. Ch., Roba m. 
John F. Slocum. Henry, Wesson, Jane m. Albert 
Isman. 



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Katy b. 23 April 1793; m. Amasa B. Andrews, 17 Nov. 

1811. 
Roba b. 9 Feb. 1796; m. Samuel Southard, 25 April 1816. 
183. Wesson b. 1798; m. Eunice Boynton, (2) Lucy 

Boynton. 
Job B. b. 27 July 1800; m. 29 Dec. 1822, Esther Chamber- 

berlain; d. 1882. Ch., Wyman C, Sarah A. m. a Mr. 

Lee; John Herman b. 1836, m. and has a dau. in Cal. 

He was Chaplain in U. S. Army; and Lorane, m. M. L. 

Maynard of Fairhaven, Vt. 
Betsey b. 15 July 1802; m. Isaac Wright, 16 Feb. 1826. 
J. Nelson b. 1 May 1804; m. 21 Sept. 1829, Mary B. 

Throop. 4 ch., two were George and Emily, who was 

b. 18 Aug. 183 1, and m. n Nov. 1883, George Emerson 

Brewer, and 1. in Keeseville, N. Y. 
Hon. Alonzo b. 28 July 1806; m. Eliza Wilbur, 25 Sept. 

1828; b. in Schnectady, N. Y. Was J. P. and 

Postmaster. One son, was druggist in Schenectady. 
Mary b. 18 June 1808; m. Rev. Cyrus Meeker, 11 July 

1828. 
Mercy b. 6 July 1810; m. Charles Ferris, 20 April 1828. 
Jane b. 25 May 1812; m. Horace Parkil, 10 Jan. 1837. 
Amasa b. 19 April 1814; m. 23 Jan. 1839, Emily Ferris, 

b. 19 April 1820, in Peru, N. Y. He d. in Keeseville, N. 

Y., April 1893. Ch., Frederick H., b. 17 July 1849, d. 

1 March 1859; Julia B. b. 28 March 1852, at Green 

Bay, Wis., and DeWitt Noble b. 30 Sept. 1856, d. 14 

May 1858. 
Matilda S. b. 19 May 1816; m. Reuben Averill, 4 Jan. 

1842. 

100 

Benjamin Macomber (John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 2 June 1775, 
married Mary Gage and lived in Chesterfield, N. Y. Children: 

William. 

Seth m. Mary Hooker. 

Phebe. 

Stephen b. 28 Feb. 1802; m. Nancy Bigelow, (2) Mary Knapp. 

Polly b. 31 Aug. 1804; m. 5 May 1824, Warren Strong. 



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J 39 



Mortimer m. Matilda Marshall. 

Margaret m. Wm. T. Morehouse, Sun Prairie, Wis. 

Susan m. A. Beardsley, (2) Durand. 

John B. b. abt. 181 3 ; m. Beardsley, (2)4 Jan. 1864, 

Mrs. Jane Wheeler, in Lee, Mass. 
Lucinda m. Edward Beardsley. 
Wesson m. Caroline Isman. 

101 

"Jeremiah Macomber (John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 31 March 
1781, married Allen and is said to have lived in Pennsylva- 
nia, and to have had children : 
Matilda. 
Rebecca. 
Oren. 

102 

Jonathan Macomber (George 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 1786, married, 3 March 
181 1, Cynthia, dau. of Samuel and Cynthia Briggs, and lived in 
Dartmouth. She died in New Bedford 15 Feb. 1875, aged 85 
yrs. 10 mos. His will, dated 1854, names the following children. 
He died about 1866. 

Sarah b. 1812; m. John V. Turner, 31 Dec. 1843. 

Phebe. 

Eliza. 

Mary b. 1823 ; m. 8 Feb. 1857, Wm. A. Gifford of Westport. 

Stephen, d. 20 Mch. 1908, aged 83-6-27, in Westport. He m. 
(1)2 Oct. 1856, Phebe A. Butts, who d. 22 Sept. 1872, aged 39- 
6-5, (2) 29 Oct. 1876, Cynthia White Hitt, dau. of Humphrey 
and Susanna Hitt of Tiverton, who d. 18 Dec. 1882, aged 30-3-4, 
(3) 10 Nov. 1883, Elizabeth B. Tripp, dau. of Job and Betty, who 
d. 7 April 1885, aged 42, (4) 30 Oct. 1887, Mrs. Annie Fair- 
weather, dau. of Mathew and Mary Bryant. A dau. by first mar- 
riage, Maria E. b. 21 Jan. 1862, m. 17 Aug. 1879, Charles T. 
Brightman. Another daughter was Laura A. b. abt. 1859, who 
m. 5 Mch. 1876, Isaac J. Barker. 

George W. b. abt. 1830; m. 12 Dec. 1858, Mrs. Mary W. Col- 
lins, dau. of John and Ruth Crapo. He d. in Dartmouth, Mass., 



140 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

29 June 1896. A dau. Ruth Mary b. 22 Sept. i860, m. 21 Jan. 
1879, George W. Phillips. A son, George T. b. abt. 1859, m. 6 
Nov. 1881, Georgianna Briggs, dau. of Josiah and Eudora, and 
had dau. Lenna Iris, b. in Dartmouth 27 Sept. 1888. 

John B. b. abt. 1818; m. 16 Jan. 1869, Mrs. Hope S. (Man- 
chester) Leachman, dau. of Layton and Prudence P. (Spooner) 
Manchester. He d. in 1891, aged 73-5-17. She d. 30 Sept. 1901, 

aged 82-7-9. 

103 

Isaac Macomber (Wesson 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 11 July 1776, married, 22 

Sept. 1802, Anna, dau. of John and Phebe ( ) Weeden of 

Portsmouth, R. I. He died 3 May 1852. His wife, born 24 
April 1776, died 8 Oct. 185 1. See Friends' Records, Westport, 
Mass. He was a blacksmith. Children : 

Phebe b. 15 Dec. 1803; m. 27 Oct. 1824, Nathan Slade. 
184. Abraham b. 2 Sept. 1805; m. Mary Gifford. 

Daniel b. 1 Sept. 1810; d. 2-j Feb. 1899. Unm. 

Isaac b. 20 April 1814; d. 3 Aug. 1814. 

104 

Jacob Macomber (Wesson 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 26 Feb. 1778, married 10 
Feb. 1805, Nancy Petty. He died in Westport, Mass., 8 Sept. 
1864, aged 86-6-12. She died 8 May 1874, aged 90-2-2. She 
was dau. of Joshua and Rosanna Petty. Children so far as 
known : 

Ezra b. 1805 ; m. (1) 19 Oct. 1828 Sophia D., dau. of Nathan- 
iel and Sophia Tripp, who d. 22 Sept. 1862, aged 56-3-17. Had 
dau. Mary C. b. 1841, who m. 19 April 1863, Thomas E. Sherman. 
Ezra Macomber m. (2) 22 May 1868, Lydia, dau. of Thomas and 
Abby (Manchester) Mayo. 

David, died 21 April 1889, aged 80 years 9 months. 

Moses, died in Dartmouth 22 Nov. 1884, aged 73 yrs. 7 mos. 
He m. 10 April 1836, Mary V. Davis of Dartmouth, and had sev- 
eral children who died young. 

105 
Wesson Macomber (Wesson 5 , William 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 30 Aug. 1800, married 



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141 



Catherine S. Tripp, dau. of Jonathan and Alice. Published 8 
Oct. 1819. He died in Westport, Mass., 4 March 1870. She 
died 3 June 1882, aged yy yrs. Children: 

Zeeedee D. b. 20 Nov. 1820; m. 26 Apr. 1875, Celia McKer- 
nan; d. s. p. 25 Feb. 1904. She d. 28 June 1876. 

Ezra b. 1824; m. Matilda K. Tripp, dau. of Joseph and Annie 
M. He d. 9 Mch. 1905, aged 80-2-25. She d. 4 Apr. 1897, a g ed 
72-1-6. Ch., Ezra B. b. 1853, m. 10 May 1883, Mrs. Elizabeth 
B. Terry, dau. of Leonard and Lavinia Gifford, who d. at Fall 
River 6 Mch. 1885, aged 22-11-28, (2) 2 Oct. 1895, Rosia Oclair 
in Swansea; Annie J. b. 21 Nov. 1854, m. 24 Dec. 1871, John A. 
Pettey ; Catherine S. b. 14 June i860; Emery Devol b. 27 Aug. 
1861, m. 10 Nov. 1889, Deborah F., dau. of George H. and Lydia 
E. Tripp; Mary E. b. 14 June 1865. 

Deborah b. abt. 1826; m. 25 Dec. 1844 Valentine Mason, Jr. 

Maria b. abt. 1829; m. 14 Dec. 1845, Warren Babcock. 

John Andrew b. 8 July 1837; m - 2 Aug. 1864, Rhoda T. dau. 
of George and Prudence (Tripp) Simmons; d. 30 Mch. 1897. 

Mary m. Robert Cook of Fall River. 

Catherine A. b. abt. 1840; m. 25 Sept. 1857, Stephen De- 
Moransville. 

Wesson b. 1843 ! m - Hannah Holley, or Holland and 1. at Fall 
River. Ch., Charles A. b. 1 Jan. 1868, d. 17 Feb. 1873; Ruth E. 
b. 17 Feb. 1870, d. 12 Feb. 1873; Amy b. 4 Apr. 1873; Ida M. b. 
abt. 1875, m. 26 June 1895, John F. Metzger. 

Amy b. 15 Sept. 1843. 

Lydia d. 26 Nov. 1845, aged 11 yrs. 

Lydia b. 16 Dec. 1844; m. Herbert Pettey. 

Child b. 6 April 1847. 

Isaac b. 5 Aug. 1849. Living at New Bedford. 

Peace L. b. 1834; m. abt. 1855 John D. Read. 

106 

Eliphalet Macomber (Elijah 5 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., Oct. 1790, married, 20 
Nov. 1805, Mercy Kilby, born 1798, and lived in Dartmouth. He 
died 16 Feb. 1878, aged 87-3-17. Family not fully traced. 

Cynthia m. 14 Nov. 1841, Joseph Mosher, Jr. 

Eliza Jane d. 22 Sept. 1854, aged 20-5-13. 



142 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Hannah A. b. 1841 ; m. 18 Aug. 1857, Adam G. Borden. 

Leonard K. b. abt. 1828; m. (1) 17 June 1855, Julia A., dau. 
of John and Comfort (Wilcox) Macomber, (2) 15 March 1858, 
Ruth C, dau. of Holder and Elizabeth Borden, (3) 31 Dec. 1871, 
Mrs. Minerva F. Potter, dau. of Holder and Elizabeth (Chase) 
Borden. She d. in Dartmouth, 7 June 1895, aged 51-10-8. Ch., 
Mary J. b. 1859, m. 7 Apr. 1878, James A. Riley; Bethania b. 27 
Aug. i868,d. 3 Dec. 1869; Elijah M. d. 20 July 1890, aged 
15-9-28; Edward L. b. 16 May 1872, m. 15 Sept. 1895, Cather- 
ine J. Cleveland ; George Frank b. 28 Jan. 1874 ; Ann C. b. 25 
Oct. 1875; Eleanor P. b. 20 July 1878; Emma Josephine b. 15 
Jan. 1881 ; Eliza Meton b. 23 Sept. 1884. 

Edward H. b. 1837. 

107 

Elijah Macomber (Elijah 5 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 24 Aug. 1799, married, 24 
Dec. 1820, Sarah Brightman. Was she dau. of Joseph Allen? 
He lived in Westport, Mass. His will, dated 16 Feb. 1843, an< ^ 
probated 1 Aug. 1843, names wife Sarah and following children. 
Widow may have married a Mr. Wood. 

Benjamin Tucker. His estate was administered by his 
brother Henry in 1864. 

Daniel Sanford. He was of Collins, N. Y. in 1843 or soon 
after. Was living in 1866. 

Henry B. b. 1821 ; m. 30 Aug. 1856, Mrs. Hannah D. Jillson, 
dau. of Obediah and Eliza Hoxie, aged 25. 

Francis Bunker b. 1830; m. 23 Dec. 1863, Phebe J. Pierce, 
dau. of Seabury and Phebe (Remington), of New Bedford, age 
22. He d. 15 June (or Sept.) 1876, aged 46 years. 

Sarah Ann m. 23 Nov. 1845, Sylvester Jennings. 

Lucretia Tucker m. (Russell T. ?) Lawton. 

108 
Daniel Macomber (Elijah 5 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 8 July 1802, married (1) 
23 March 1826, Judith Slocum, dau. of Christopher and Mary, 
who was born 24 Feb. 1802, and died in 1828, (2) 20 Oct. 1831, 
Phebe Slocum, sister of Judith, born in Westport, Mass., 25 Oct. 
1805. He died 16 Sept. 1865. His widow died in New Bed- 
ford 11 May 1888, aged 82 yrs. 7 mos. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1 43 

Hannah S. b. 30 Nov. 1827; d. 17 Oct. 1872. Unm. 

Judith S. b. 4 Dec. 1832; d. 29 April 1885. Unm. 

Emily M. b. 1 Feb. 1835 ; m. 9 Oct. i860 Charles T. Smith ; d. 
5 Oct. 1861. 

Abigail H. b. 12 June 1836; m. 1 Jan. 1858, Capt. Alden T. 
Potter; d. 5 Oct. 1865. 

Lydia A. b. 29 Jan. 1838; d. 3 July i860. 

Phebe Jane b. 18 May 1844; d. 19 Oct. 1845. 

Harriet H. b. 10 March 1846; m. 2 April 1874, Charles T. 
Tripp. 

Daniel W. b. 24 July 1847; d. 1 Oct. 1876. 

109 
Gilbert Macomber (Elijah 5 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ) born in Dartmouth, Mass., 2 April 1804, married abt. 
11 Nov. 1827, Mariah Brigham of Pawtucket, R. I. His death 
is recorded in Dartmouth 22 Nov. 1859. May have lived for a 
while in New Bedford. 

John, drowned in Liverpool, Eng. Unm. 

George, m. Miss Pettis of Providence, R. I. Went to 

sea, 1860-65 and was never heard from. 
Mariah m. 4 April 1846, at New Bedford, Henry Sawyer. 
185. James Scott b. in Dartmouth 22 Aug. 1837; m. Eliza- 
beth N. Peck. 

110 

John Macomber (Elijah 5 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ) born in Dartmouth, Mass., June 1806, married in New 
Bedford, 16 June 1833, Comfort Wilcox, dau. of Samuel and 
Matilda. He lived in Dartmouth and New Bedford. He died 5 
Sept. 1864. Wife died 26 July 1857, aged 46-11-24. He mar- 
ried (2) 1 Oct. 1862, Widow Lucy B. Russell, dau. of James and 
Helen Barnett. She married (3) James Scott Macomber of 
Providence. The will of John Macomber names only children 
Julia Ann, Charles E. and John H. 

Julia Ann b. 1838; m. 17 June 1855, Leonard K. Macomber. 
Probably divorced. She m. (2) 17 Oct. 1864, James Weston, at 
New Bedford. 



144 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Lucretia b. 1841 ? m. 17 July 1859, Asa Brightman. 
Mary Jane, died 13 May 1852, aged 17- 11-28. 
Charles Edward b. 15 Sept. 1850. 
John H. b. 1848. 
Elizabeth b. 1842. 

in 

Gilbert Macomber (William 3 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 14 Oct. 1761, married 
Nancy Wood, 20 Jan. 1791. He died 5 Jan. 1795, and was 
buried in the cemetery of the Friends at Central Village, West- 
port, Mass. His widow died 7 June 1842. They had one son, 

186. Gilbert b. 24 July 1792 ; m. Peace Davis. 

112 

Roger, or Rogers, Macomber (William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., about 1763, 
married Anne Waterman. She is said to have been daughter of 
a Col. Waterman of the Revolutionary Army. He settled in 
Kinderhook, Columbia County, N. Y., as a farmer. He died in 
the town of Alabama, Genesee County, N. Y., 29 Dec. 1843, a & ed 
80 years, and is buried in the Reed Cemetery, Oakfield, Genesee 
County, N. Y. His wife died 9 Dec. 1845, aged 75 years. His 
tombstone gives his name as Roges, but this is probably an error 
for Roger (so named in his father's will), or Rogers, a name 
inherited from his grandmother, Elizabeth Rogers. Children: 

187. Abner m. Mary A. Otis. 

188. Henry m. Eliza A. Kennedy. 

189. Charles m. Mary A. Burt. 

George m. Lucinda Barnes; d. 18 Apr. 1880. She d. 2 
Nov. 1876. Ch., Allen and Georgia. 

190. William m. Harriet Cutler, (2) Mrs. Roe. 

191. Allen m. Esther Howe. 

Anson killed in the Civil War. Unm. 

John m. . Had son Nathan, who d. s. p. 

and dau. Pamelia Weed, who d. 10 Oct. 1882. 
Elizabeth Ann b. 23 Feb. 1815; m. Peleg Soule; d. 2 

Jan. 1888. s. p. 
Sarah b. ; m. Joseph C. Cole; d. 28 May 1884. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 45 

113 

Thurston Macomber (William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 8 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 25 Feb. 
1796, Rhoda, dau. of Paul and Martha (Wood) Mosher, born 1 
April 1770, in Tiverton, R. I. He settled in New York State, 
and his family has not been traced. He may have lived at Green- 
afield, Saratoga Co., N. Y., or in Pennsylvania. 

114 
William Macomber (William 5 , Timothy 4 , William -, William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., married, 16 Sept. 1804, 
Rachel, dau. of Israel and Bethania (Palmer) Brightman. She 
died 21 Aug. 1872, aged 94-5-4. He died 15 April 1839. He 
was a farmer in Westport, Mass., and had one son, 

192. Israel b. 24 March 1810; m. Mary E. Manchester, 7 May 

i835- 

Simeon Macomber (William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 21 Jan. 1783, married, 29 
Dec. 1804, Abigail dau. of Peleg and Frances (Pitman) Hoxie of 
Little Compton, R. I. She died 30 Oct. 1845, a £ ed 65. He lived 
in Westport, Mass., as a tanner and dealer in live stock. He died 
5 March 1864. 

Peleg b. 20 March 1805 ; d. 28 Dec. 1828, at Fayal. Unm. 
Nancy b. 22 June 1806; m. 30 Dec. 1827, Alfred King of 

Tiverton. 
Mary b. 30 Oct. 1807; m. 13 Nov. 1834, Willard Mason 
of New Bedford, d. s. p. 23 April 1841. 

193. John b. 16 Nov. 1808; m. 19 May 1839, Mary Hazzard. 
Lydia Ann b. 16 Feb. 1810; m. 23 May 1842, Silas B. 

Sanford. 
Simeon b. 11 July 181 1; m. 1 July 1834, Elizabeth Gil- 
ford, d. s. p.12 Nov. 1896; wife d. 21 Nov. 1894, aged 
84 years 9 months. 

194. Otis b. 16 Feb. 1813; m. Priscilla B. Sanford. Pub. 2 

Nov. 1844. 

195. Thurston b. 18 Jan. 1815; m. Betsey Maria Billings of 

Sharon, 1 Jan. 1855. 
Abigail b. 15 Aug. 1816; m. Joseph Wood, 2 April 1835; 
d. 22 Sept. 1902. 



146 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Maria B. b. 5 Jan. 1818; m. Timothy R. Cushman, 8 Dec. 

1839; d. 6 Jan. 1895. 
Lucy b. 11 Aug. 1819; m. John H. Brightman, 24 Aug. 

1845. 

196. Alexander b. 13 Feb. 1821 ; m. Nancy L. King, 26 April 

1848. 
Emily b. 9 Feb. 1825 ; m. Nathaniel W. Cobb, 6 Feb* 
1853. s. p. 

116 
Ephraim Macomber (Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 20 Oct. 1776, mar- 
ried (1)3 Dec. 1801, Ruth, dau. of Joseph Healey of Tiverton,. 
R. I., (2) 31 Jan. 1805, Hannah, dau. of David and Deighton 
(Merrick) Miller of Troy (now Fall River), Mass. He died at 
Fall River, 19 April 1841, aged 64-5-29, as his tombstone 
declares. His widow died 1 Nov. 1851, aged 72 yrs. Children: 

Ruth m. Little. 

Eliza b. 1806; m. 21 Nov. 1847, Joseph Gifford; d. s. p. 

Abby B. m. 5 June 1836, William Howland. 

Clarissa m. 19 June 1838, John Ayers. 

George W. m. perhaps Rachel Read, 5 Mch. 1837. 

Dighton m. 10 Nov. 1839, Edward Covell. 

Emily A. b. 1819; m. 1 Aug. 1847, Jonathan Covell. 

197. Charles Henry b. 2 Jan. 1834; m. Rebecca W. RusselL 
John m. and d. in Fiji Islands. 

198. Alexander P. S. b. 29 Mch. 1830; m. Lucy S. D. Perry. 

117 
Gardner Macomber (Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., married (1) 10 Aug. 
1805, Sylvesta Little, (2) 2 Jan. 1807, Elizabeth, dau. of Caleb 
and Betsey Wilbur of Fall River. She died at Fall River 12 
Feb. 1867 aged 86-3-29. Fie died at same place 14 Dec. 1867, 
aged 91-6-2, as State records say. Children recorded in Fall 
River: 

Sylvesta m. Allen Gifford. Pub. 23 Sept. 1827. 

Caleb W. b. 20 Oct. 1809; m. 25 Dec. 1840, Phebe, dau. of 
David and Nancy (Briggs) Russell. He d. at Marion, Mass., 13 
Jan. 1893, aged 83-7-24. She d. at Marion, 12 Jan. 1900, aged 



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147 



7$ yrs. 11 mos. Children so far as learned, Philip b. 1840; 
William H. b. abt. 1842, m. 3 Nov. 1882, T. Ellen Pettey, and 

Caleb E., who m. Ellen and had dau. Abby E., who m. 14 

Mch. 1898, Geo. M. Robinson. 

Sally b. 10 July 1812; pub. to Allen Clifford, 1 Feb. 1833. 

Phillip T. b. 25 March 1814; m. 27 Aug. 1872, Josephine A. 
Cornell, dau. of George and Lovica. He d. in Fall River, 4 May 
1896. Son Charles G. b. in Fall River 7 Oct. 1873, m. 1 Feb. 
1895, Mary S., dau. of Elijah J. and Rebecca (Reynolds) Wor- 
dell. 

Gardner b. 17 Feb. 1822; living in 1850. 

Henry J. b. 20 May 1824; m. 10 Jan. 1864, Anna M., dau. of 
Leonard M. and Jane (Andrews) Cowen of New Bedford. He 
d. at Fall River, 1 March 1891. 

118 
John Macomber (Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 31 May 1782, married (1) 
21 Aug. 1808, Abigail, dau. of David and Dighton (Merrick) 
Miller, born in Freetown, Mass., 26 Feb. 1785. She died at 
Wilton, Me., 5 July 1832. He bought a farm in Wilton in 1806 
and moved his family there in 18 12. Between those dates he 
used to walk from Dartmouth to Wilton in the Spring, do his 
farming and build his log cabin, and return to Dartmouth on foot 
in the Fall. In early life he had worked as blacksmith in a ship- 
yard and was a man of unusual strength of muscle and mind. 
He cleared a farm of several hundred acres and became a pros- 
perous and much respected citizen. He married (2) 2 Dec. 1832, 
Betsey, dau. of Eleazar and Mehitable (Ladd) Robbins, born 30 
April 1799, at Winthrop, Me. John Macomber died at Wilton, 
5 Nov. 1853, and his widow married, 2 March 1858, Elisha Clark 
of Wilton. She died 20 June 1868. Children: 

Timothy b. 18 July 1809; m. 27 Dec. 1836, Susannah 
Chaney, dau. of Luther and Annie, b. 1 Jan. 181 1. He 
d. 2 June 1842. Two ch., Anne Richardson b. 5 Aug. 
1840 d. 3 Feb. 1865; and Andrew B. b. 12 July 1838, 
in East Wilton, Me., who m. (1) 16 Dec. 1865, in 
Farmington, Me., Olive Aurora Pease, dau. of Calvin 
and Olive, who d. Aug. 1871, (2) 26 Mch. 1891, Flora 



148 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

G. Gates, dan. of Jacob and Sarah, of Ashburnham, 
Mass. He was a soldier in the Civil War. He 1. in 
Worcester but d. in Ashburnham, Mass., 4 July 1906. 
3 dans., Olivette A. b. 9 Sept. 1855, d. 10 Apr. 1887; 
Estelle Louise b. 28 May 1868, d. 26 May 1881, and 
Ella May b. 7 Jan. 1870, d. 4 May 1876. The widow 
of Timothy Macomber m. (2) 1856, Jeremiah Walker, 
and d. 4 June 1884. 

Merrick b. 9 Aug. 1810; d. June 181 1. 

Mary b. t March 1813; m. 17 Mch. 1846, Horace Allen; 
d. at Farmington, Me. 

199. David Miller b. 29 May 1814; m. Hannah G. Allen. 
John Browxell b. 18 May 1816; d. 21 May 1874, at E. 

Wilton, Me. 
Abigail Brownell b. 8 Mch. 1818; m. 15 Jan. 1838, 
Sumner B. Downing, d. 7 April 1853, at Wayne, Me. 

200. James Nelson b. 8 Feb. 1821 ; m. Mary L. Mathews. 
Charles Mason b. 7 Jan. 1823; m. 12 Nov. 1854, Elzoda 

L. Craig of Farmington, Me. Res., Des Moines, Iowa. 
She d. s. p. 3 March 1908. 
Eunice Davis b. 19 July 1827; d. 9 Feb. 1841. 
Merrick b. 5 Aug. 1829; d. 6 Jan. 1830. 
Susan Baker b. 21 June 1832; m. 24 June i860, Hiram 
B. S. Davis; d. June 1880 at Farmington, Me. 
Children by second marriage : 

Philena Elmira b. 31 May 1834; living at West Freeman, Me. 
Leonard Hathaway b. 14 June 1839; d. 2 July 1856. 

118 a 
Abner Macomber (Michael 5 , Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 30 Oct. 1775, married Phebe, 
dau. of Elisha and Sarah (Bennett) Estes, born 19 April 1781. 
He removed to Duchess Co., N. Y., thence to Western, New York, 
thence to Tug Hill, Louis Co., N. Y., where he died. His wife 
died 7 Sept. 1850. One son: 

Theophilus b. in Western, N. Y., 12 Aug. 1815; m. Sarah A. 
Bugbee. Ch., Calista m. Martin Van Buskirk; Nelson; Jay b. 25 
Mch. 1848, m. Elma Gue; Dick; and Sarah C, m. Horace Gillett. 
Jay Macomber had ch., Fred J. and Clara B. 



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'49 



119 

Job Macomber (Benjamin r> , Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 27 June 1768, married Susan- 
nah Palmer. She probably married (2) Thomas Simmons, 25 
Aug. 1805. Children recorded in Tiverton: 
Elizabeth b. 16 March 1788. 

201. Benjamin b. 9 May 1790; m. Ruth . 

202. Christopher b. 11 Oct. 1792; m. Eliphal . 



Jeremiah b. 18 Feb. 1795 ; removed to Derby, Vt, and 
there m. 181 5, Mary Woodhouse of Middleton, Vt. 
' Removed to Baldwin, Chemung Co., N. Y. Wife d. 1 
Feb. 1868. He m. (2) Nancy McCumber, widow of 
his brother. He was assessor, commissioner and J. P. 
He d. in Baldwin about 1880. Had one dau., Elizabeth, 
who m. Nelson Slawson and d. in Chemung, N. Y., 22 
March 1846, leaving two sons. See sketch and por- 
trait in Plist. of Chemung Co., p. 314. 

Job b. 30 Nov. 1796; m. Nancy ? 

203. Seabury b. 16 April 1799; m. Lydia Miller Collins. 

120 

Ephraim Macomber (Ephraim 5 , Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 27 Jan. 1778, married 
Mary Sanford and lived in Tiverton. Children : 

204. Charles b. 10 Feb. 1804; m. Desire Grinnell. 

205. Isaac m. Mary M. Simmons. 

Reuben m. Eliza Grinnell. Ch., William, Mary m. 

George Pettey, Louisa m. 7 Dec. 185 1, Adoniram Bliss, 

Comfort, and Albert. 
Patience m. Edward Simmons. 
Eunice m. Wm. Smith Simmons. 
Daughter m. Godfrey King. 

121 

John Macomber (Ephraim 5 , Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. L, 22 March 1784,, married 
Lydia . The first five children are recorded in Tiverton. 

Jesse b. 2^ July 1801. A Jesse Macomber m. Elsie Snell and 
had ch., Julia A. b. abt. 1827, m. 4 Nov. 1845, Charles M. Smith 
in New Bedford, and Moses, who m. Mary Snell and d. in Port 



150 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Jarvis, N. J., leaving ch., Jesse Moses b. 18 Sept. 1852, Charles 
b. abt. 1856, John, Henry R., and Jennie. 

Nathan b. 26 Feb. 1803; d. 3 May 1804. 

Deliverance b. 23 Nov. 1804. 

Isaac b. 21 Dec. 1806. An Isaac Macomber of Fall River m. 
24 May 1828, Mercy Hill, dau. of Jonathan of Warren, R. I. 
Isaac R. Macomber, mariner, of Tiverton, d. intestate in 1839. 
Sarah A. Macomber, dau. of Isaac and Sarah, b. abt. 1832, m. 12 
April 1849, Charles M. Spooner of Wareham, Mass. 

John b. 17 Feb. 1809; m. Mahala Tripp. Ch., Maria E. m. 
14 Dec. 1865, Charles A. Albert; Amanda F. m. 15 Feb. 1867, 
David H. Manchester; Patience b. 1854, m. 25 July 1874, Frank 
W. White; Ruth d. 22 Sept. 1855, aged 3-7-10; and William b. 
abt. 1859, m. 11 Sept. 1881, Lena W. Wilcox. 

Ann P. m. 28 July 1833, George S. Allen of Westport. 

Eunice m. 4 May i860, Andrew Anderson. 

Bemjamin m. Diana, dau. of Edward and Dilly (Macomber) 
Simmons. She d. 29 Dec. 1898, aged 82-10-11. A dau. Ellen 
M. m. 31 Dec. 1865, Howard Tripp of Westport, Mass. 

122 

Thomas Macomber (Abiel 5 , Jeremiah 4 , AbieP, William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in New Haven, Conn., in 1783; married, (1) 
Mehitable Allen, 19 Dec. 1804. She died 29 March 1830, aged 
46 years. He married (2) 6 May 1830, Asenath Mason, and 
(3) 2 3 June 1834, Sarah Kiffe. He died at New Haven 4 Feb. 
1835, aged 52 years. Children: 

Merit b. 2 Nov. 1805; m. 11 June 1826, Julia Ann Hulse; d. 
12 Aug. 1849. She, b. 3 Jan. 1807, d. 24 Nov. 1892. Ch., Har- 
riet Antoinette b. 6 Nov. 1829, d. 9 May 1832 ; Mary b. 23 April 
1832, m. John W. Mansfield; Julia Ann b. 30 Dec. 1834, m. 
Henry Whiting Mansfield, b. 12 Aug. 1830. 

Henry b. 3 Nov. 1807; d. Mch. 1851. 

Harriet, twin to Henry ; d. 4 Oct. 1842. 

Wyllys b. 10 April 1810; d. 8 Nov. 1854. 

Allen b. 30 July 1813; drowned 2 Feb. 1851. 

Thomas b. 30 July 1817; d. 19 Feb. 1820. 

Sarah b. 15 Dec. 1819; m. Marcus B. Foster, 15 July 1838. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



'5 1 



Mehitable b. 31 May 1822; m. Daniel Sackctt Glenny, 29 
Oct. 1843. 

Julia Ann b. 1 March 1825. 

123 

Perry Macomber (Zebedee 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William-, Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 3 Aug. 1756, married (1) 
Rachel, dau. of Elijah and Deborah (Wilbur) Gifford, born 24 
April 1762. He married (2) 31 Aug. 1809, Sarah Gifford 
His will, dated 2 Mch. 1834, was probated 3 June 1839. Chil- 
dren recorded in Dartmouth, Mass. 

Elizabeth b. 26 July 1786; m. 22 Feb. 1810, Perry Sis- 
son; d. 24 Feb. 1 82 1. 
Deborah b. 10 Jan. 1788; m. 12 June 1814, John B. 

Chace, (2) William Wilbur. 
Zebedee A. b. 11 Dec. 1790; m. Mary Smith. Ch., Rachel 
G. m. 20 Mch. 1843, Franklin I. Spencer of Buffalo, 
N. Y. ; Charles S. who m. perhaps Ruth Sissions in 

New Bedford, 7 Oct. 1834, and Amy C, who m. 

Richmond of New Bedford. This family lived in Buf- 
falo, N. Y., in 1858. 

206. Elijah G. b. 24 Aug. 1792; m. Phebe Howland, 23 

March, 1820. 
Edith G. b. 9 Sept. 1794; m. Langworthy Almy 12 Apr. 

1818; d. 23 June 1876. 
Rachel b. 23 Jan. 1797; d. 30 Aug. 1831. Unm. 

207. Perry R. b. 26 June 1799; m. Amy Cornell, (2) Mary 

Peverly. 
William b. 5 Aug. 1801 ; d. 25 Aug. 1808. 

124 
Gardner, or Garner, Macomber (Philip 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 25 Nov. 1764, 
removed to Nine Partners, Duchess County, N. Y., with his 
father and there married, 25 Sept. 1788, Hannah Deuel. She 
was born 27 Sept. 1766 in Dartmouth, Mass., and died 2 July, 
1848. Fie died 18 March 185 1. Belonged to the Society of 
Friends at Nine Partners. He lived in Galway, Saratoga Co., 
New York. 



152 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Susan b. 12 Aug. 1789; m. 7 Nov. 1812, Stephen How- 
land; d. 8 July 1879. 
Israel b. 5 April, 1791 ; d. 20 Apr. 1830. Had son Lewis. 

207. a. Richard b. 25 July 1792 ; m. Charlotte Sexton. 

Joseph b. 21 Jan. 1795 ; m. Eliza . Ch., Philip, 

Oren, Charilla, Richard, Sarah, Harmon, and David. 

Jane b. 1 May 1797; m. Lewis Hayes; d. 8 May 1881, 
at Marion, N. Y. 

208. Isaac b. 12 Aug. 1798; m. Anna Howland, 12 Jan. 1819. 
Edith b. 23 May 1802 ; m. James Ackerman. 

Mary b. 2 Oct. 1804; m. Shubal Adams; d. 8 June 1843. 
Hannah b. 7 July 1810; m. Lewis Tripp; d. 2 May 1843. 

125 
Barnabas Macomber (Philip 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 1 July 1768, married, 2^ Feb. 
1791, at Nine Partners, Duchess County, N. Y., Kezia, dau. of 
Samuel and Anna (Haviland) Hoag, born 28 March 1769. Is 
said to have lived in Providence, Saratoga County, N. Y. 
Belonged to the Society of Friends. While he and his wife were 
riding on the same horse home from meeting, they and the horse 
were killed by the failing of a tree, blown over by the wind. This 
was about 1793. Two children: 

Anne b. 1791 ; m. 25 March 1812 Nathaniel Osborn. 

209. Philip Hart b. 9 Dec. 1792 (?) m. Susan Swan; (2) 

Susan A. Elliott. 

126 
Wanton Macomber (AbieP, Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., June 1768, married, 7 Dec. 
1788, Hannah, dau. of William and Mary (Shrieve) Wilcox, 
born 1 Feb. 1768, (2) 17 July 1806, Judith, widow of Elias Pot- 
ter. He died in Westport, Mass., 14 March 1849. His second 
wife died 23 Nov. 1854, aged 87 years. His will, dated 11 Sept. 
1843, names the following children except Phebe. 

Phebe, minor over 14 in 1809 ; prob. died young. 

210. Pardon b. abt. 1793; m. Pamelia Brownell. 
Mary m. 9 Feb. 18 17, Allen Tripp. 
Betsey m. 14 April 1822, Pardon Cornell. 
Ruth m. 9 July 1834, Charles Ball. 



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127 

Charles Macomber (Abiel 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William-, Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., Oct. 1769, married, 5 Sept. 
1793, Peace Gifford of Westport, Mass., dau. of Christopher and 
Deborah. He died in Westport 22 March 1837, aged 67 yrs. 5 
mos. His wife died 17 April 1831, aged 64 yrs. 2 mos., as their 
tombstones in Westport declare. His will, dated 26 Nov. 1835, 
names the following children, except Charles. 

211. Perry G. b. 17 April 1798; m. Betsey Allen. 
Sally m. Pardon Case, pub. 1 May 1814. 
Lydia m. Jonathan Smith, pub. 25 Sept. 1819. 
Maria m. John W. Tripp, pub. 8 Nov. 181 9. 
Eliza b. 1800; m. Joseph Cornell, 30 Nov. 1828. 

212. James b. 1806; m. Ann Potter, 30 Nov. 1828. 
Sarah Ann m. Alvan B. Tripp, 30 Jan. 183 1. 
Charles, d. 18 Oct. 1822, aged 19 yrs. 

128 

Ellery Macomber (Noe 3 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Westport, Mass., July 1796, married (1) Mercy, dau. 
of Elisha and Mary Francis. Published 18 Aug. 1820. She 
died 11 Sept. 1848, aged 45-6-15. He married, (2) 7 Oct. 1849, 
Abigail Bliss, who died 19 Nov. 1865, aged 64. He died in 
Westport, 9 Oct. 1865. Farmer. 

Pardon b. 4 Dec. 182 1 ; m. Mary Ann, dau. of Humphrey and 
Mary (Manchester) Macomber. He was lost at sea in 1849. 
She d. 13 Jan. 1847, a g e d 25-10-9. Two sons, George P. d. 
7 Sept. 1848, aged 4-3-29, and William R. d. 14 June 1862, 
aged 17-1-1. 

Charles H. b. 1825. Sailor in 1850. 

George H. b. 1826; m. 12 July 1848, Sarah J. Little, dau. of 
Otis and Lucy. He d. 26 July 1873, aged 46 yrs. 10 mos. She 
d. 5 June 1890, aged 58-3-19. Ch., Alice A.; Caroline F. b. 28 
Dec. 1854, m. 17 Jan. 1875, George B. Swift; Henrietta D. d. 2 
Nov. 1883, aged 23-2-6; George E. b. March 1865; Carl K. b. 
2 Dec. 1870; Lucy B. b. 23 June 1872, and d. 1 Dec. 1873. 

Richmond m. 13 Jan. 1850, Sarah W. Tripp. Had son, 
Charles, b. 17 Feb. 185 1, in Westport, Mass. 



154 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

John B. b. 1829; m. Maggie ; d. before 1865. Had 

son, Eugene Homer b. Jan. i860, who 1. at Roundout, N. Y., in 
1866. 

Sylvia S. b. abt. 1832 ; m. James Gilfeather of Boston. 

Caroline d. 27 Aug. 1848, aged 16-1-1. 

Horace L. b. 1836. 

Ruth M. b. 1838; m. Joseph Howard of Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Mary E. died 4 Sept. 1848, aged 7 yrs. 4 mos. 

William R. b. 1846. 

129 

Rescom Macomber (Archer 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Washington, N. Y., 23 March 1776, married 
Esther Howland. He died in Hunterland, N. Y., in 1852. His 
children were Howland, Archer, Richard, Resolved, Betsey and 
Lavinia. Only the first is traced. 

Howland Macomber, born in 1804, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., 
married, 1829, Harriet Hyde Joice. He died in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
29 May 1873. She was born in 1809, in Hunterland, N. Y., and 
d. 24 Nov. 1895. He was a merchant and paper manufacturer 
at Windham, N. Y., and later a dealer in real estate in Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. Ch., Walter Hyde b. 30 June 1830, m. 1 July 1862, 
Harriet Lewis and d. in 1804 in Brooklyn, leaving four ch., 
Lewis A., b. Oct. 1864, m. 12 Feb. 1901, Florence Bell; Henry 
Welch b. 18 Dec. 1866, m. Oct. 1895, Florence Honeywell; Anna 
Lillian b. 13 Sept. 1874, and Mabel Esther b. 22 Oct. 1876; 
Augustus R. b. 1832, d. 1864, lawyer, unm. ; Rodman Joice b. 
1834, d. 1891, lawyer, unm. ; Rescom b. 1836 d. at age of 13 yrs.; 
and Mary Esther b. 1840 m. James M. Chase of Windsor, N. Y. 

130 

Zebedee Macomber (Archer 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 8 Oct. 1785, 
married Rebecca Johnson. She was born 10 Aug. 1787 and died 
6 May 1856. He died 17 Feb. 1875. 

Jane b. 12 Sept. 1806; m. 19 Feb. 1830, Sidney Lapham; d. 26 
May 1897. 

Egbert b. 10 June 1808; m. Annie Benedict; d. 6 Oct. 1888 in 
Ohio. 12 ch. 

Albert b. 12 Dec. 1809; m. (1) 18 Jan. 1835, Jane Treadwell, 
(2) Mary Yule, (3) Abia Stoddard. He removed to Michigan 



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"55 



and d. 6 Feb. 1894. Ch., Mary A., Archer, Rebecca J., Cather- 
ine, Harriet, Thomas, and Helen. 

William b. 1 June 181 1; m. 27 May 1833, Elsi a Furguson. 
He was a farmer in Ohio. Died 1 Aug. 1887. Ch., Eunice b. 
22 May 1839, Mary D., b. 6 June 1841 ; Alice L., b. 22 Oct. 1843; 
Phebe A., b. 13 July 1845; Ezra, b. 13 June 1848; Rosella, b. 16 
Nov. 1850; Emma J., b. 29 Nov. 1854; and Fremont, b. 30 Sept. 

1857- 

Smith b. 5 Dec. 1812; m. Sally Treat; d. Oct. 1881. Ch., 
Jerome and Fannie. 

Betsey b. 25 May 1814; m. 31 May 1836, Charles A. Tread- 
well. 

Oscar b. 17 Oct. 1815; m. 1 June 1841, Mary Allen; d. s. p. 
March 1891. 

Norman b. 4 Dec. 1817; m. 16 Oct. 1842, Caroline Crise and 1. 
in Oscaloosa, Kansas. 15 Ch., Caroline, Egbert, Henry, Rosa, 
Jane, Sophia, Elizabeth, Elihu, Myron, Norman, Isaac, Ida, Vic- 
toria and Kate. 

Herman b. 18 May 1819; m. Margaret Knox; d. 19 Sept. 

1875. 1 Ch. 

Eunice b. 2j Feb. 1821 ; m. Squire Gifford ; d. 21 March 1863. 
Jerome b. 24 May 1823; d. 6 April 1831. 
Hannah b. 18 Jan. 1825 ; m. Oct. 1848, Wm. Lawton ; d. s. p. 
21 June 1891. 

DeWitt b. 18 Aug. 1826; m. Caroline Anthony. One son, 

Wallace. 

Emery b. 31 March 1828; m. 25 May 1853, Betsey Mosher; d. 
15 Dec. i860. Ch., Oscar b. 17 March 1854, d. 23 Feb. i860, 
and Mary J- b. 25 July 1855, who lives at Millbrook, N. Y. 

131 

Archer Macomber (Archer 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 28 June 1789, 
married, 27 March 1813, Patience Tripp. He died 18 Nov. 

1876. She died 5 Aug. 1855. Children: 

213. Jedediah b. 31 Jan. 1814; m. Emily Durkee; d. 5 
Dec. 1 87 1. 
Susan b. 23 Feb. 1815; d. 12 May 1819. 
Isaac b. 4 May 1818; d. 20 Aug. 1876. 
Mary Jane b. 15 Sept. 1822. 



156 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

132 

Elihu C. Macomber (Archer 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Washington, Duchess Co., N. Y., 9 Sept. 1793, 
married (1) Mary Greene, (2) 1821, Elizabeth C. Wood. He 
was buried in Clarksville, N. Y. Two children by each mar- 
riage : 

Edgar. 

William. 

Julia A. b. 3 Sept. 1828. 

Elihu C. b. 29 Nov. 1833. 

133 

John Macomber (Constant 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., in 1800, married (1) Harriet 
Allen of Dartmouth, (2) 16 Jan. 1843, Hannah B., dau. of 
George and Susan (Bowman) Taber, of Acushnet, Mass. 
Quaker and mariner. He died in New Bedford 7 April 1870, 
aged 70. Widow died 31 Mch. 1897, aged 86 yrs. 9 mos. 

Sylvanus b. abt. 1834; d. 18 Nov. 1890 in New Bedford; m. 
5 Mch. 1857, Eunice N. Bray, dau. of William and Phebe, of 
Yarmouth. Ch., Lewis C. b. 4 Nov. 1857, m. 4 Nov. 1897, Annie 
M. Balzer, aged 35, in Boston; another son b. 24 Mch. 1859; 
dau. Lottie M. d. 14 Jan. 1861. 

Alexander Alden, died at age of 1 yr. 3 mos. 

Abba A. b. 24 Nov. 1843; m - 8 Jan. 1864, Thomas H. How- 
land, (2) Thomas W. Macomber, son of Perry G. and Betsey 
(Allen). 

John b. 24 Jan. 1851; prob. d. young. 

Frank W. b. 6 July 1853; d. 1 May 1857. 

George T. b. about 1854; m. 8 July 1883, Hannah M. Gar- 
raughty. One daughter, Alice J. 

Harriet S. 3 Sept. 1858? m. 15 Feb. 1879, Edward W. How- 
land, New Bedford. 

134 

Alden Macomber (Constant 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born 20 Oct. 1792 in Dartmouth, Mass., or Westport, 
married, 10 July 1817, Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Godfrey and 
Amy (Slocum) Cornell, born 7 Aug. 1796. She died 30 Dec. 
1880. He died 3 Nov. 1855. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 57 

Tabitha Gifford b. 30 Nov. 1818; m. Capt. Isaiah West 31 
Aug. 1848. 

Godfrey Cornell b. 6 Nov. 1819; m. 1836, Parnel M. Morse, 
dau. of Joshua and Parnel. Lived at Long Plain, Mass. He d. 
23 April 1886. She d. 30 Mch. 1880, aged 56. Had son, 

George Alden b. 7 Mch. 1844; m. 27 Dec. 1866, Sarah 

Louise, dau. of Peter D. and Sarah B. (Briggs) Slade, 

age 22, and has two children, born at Acushnet, Mass. 

Lila Mary b. 16 Feb. 1869; m. 25 Dec. 1888, Frederick A. 

Gifford, 
William B. b. 24 Dec. 1870; m. 23 Dec. 1892, Nettie M. 
McCain. She m. (2) 30 June, 1898, Wm. C. Gillis of 
Dartmouth. 
Elizabeth, died young. 

John Alexander b. 6 June 183 1 ; m. 1874, Annabel Halstead 
of Chicago, b. 28 Dec. 1842. 

Sarah b. 23 May 1835 '> m - l J an - i860, Wm. S. Wilde. 
Alden Bradford b. 23 Oct. 1839. Unm. 

135 

Otis Macomber (Constant 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, or Westport, Mass., ; 

married, (1) 30 Dec. 1810, Abby Gladding at Bristol, R. I. She 
died at Bristol 17 Dec. 1841, aged 48. He married (2) at Bris- 
tol 9 Feb. 1847, Maria Meigs. He died at Bristol Aug. 1852. 

Sarah W. m. prob. 19 June 1845, Walter Bradford. 

Warren. 

George. 

Abby. 

Emily, d. 12 Aug. 1842, aged 9 mos. 

Son, d. 13 Aug. 1836, aged 5 mos. 

136 
Zebedee Macomber (Humphrey 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 15 Feb. 1779, married, 17 
Feb. 1805, Sarah Earle, dau. of Robert and Mary (Corey) 
Earle, born 22 Feb. 1789. He died 12 Jan. 1858, in Providence, 
R. I. She died 13 Feb. 1840, in Providence. One son, 



158 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Frederick S. b. 1805 ; m. 18 Jan. 1827, Sarah, dau. of Sylva- 
nus and Thankful N. Gage of Yarmouth, Mass., b. 1805. She 
d. 9 Apr. 1871. Lived in Johnston, R. I. 

137 

Varnum Macomber (Humphrey 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 8 Feb. 1788, married, 17 
Sept. 181 2, Lydia A. Davis of Westport, probably dau. of John 
S. Davis. She was born 9 Oct. 1794, and died 30 April, 1854. 
He died 8 Feb. 1876. Children: 

Phebe b. 18 Feb. 1813; m. 16 Dec. 1835, Henry Bright- 
man of Westport, Mass., d. s. p. 26 Nov. 1888. 

214. Rescome b. 31 Dec. 1814; m. 5 June 1836, Mary Shaw 

Brightman. 
Abbie M. b. 13 June 1816; m. 31 July 1836, Justin J. 

Stoddard; d. s. p. 11 Jan. 1889. 
Jane b. 8 July 1818; m. 25 Sept. 1836, Alden Reynolds 

of Dartmouth, Mass. ; d. 23 June 1865. Ch., Abbie 

Jane m. Reuben P. Lovell and Phebe B. m. Roswell 

Whitney. 
Angeline b. 16 Dec. 1822; m. 19 Feb. 1840, William 

Dyer; d. 9 Feb. 1868. One ch., Adeline m. Geo. Gray. 

215. John D. b. 16 Nov. 1824; m. Louisa Tripp. 

George S. b. 21 April 1827; m. 9 Apr. 1846, Ruth Groves, 
who d. 14 Sept. 1848, aged 22; (2) Mary J. Kidder, 
who d. 12 Jan. 1887, aged 71-9-11. He d. at Brock- 
ton, Mass., 28 Nov. 1893. 2 Ch., Ruth and William 
B. b. 2 June 1857, in Taunton, m. 23 Apr. 1883, Carrie 

A. Tinkham of Middleboro, Mass. 

Lydia Ann b. 13 April 1829; m. 28 Sept. 1845, James R. 

Hart, (2) Holder Dennis. 8 Ch. She d. 18 Sept. 1882. 

Julia Ann b. 13 April 1829; m. 19 March 1848, Samuel 

B. Devol; d. 1899, s. p. 

216. James V. b. 29 July 1832; m. 13 Nov. 1853, Lucretia 

Hazzard. 
Hannah Allen b. 24 July 1834; m. 27 Nov. 1853, 
Frank Hazzard; d. 5 April 1867. 4 Ch. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 59 

138 

Caleb McOmber (Caleb 5 , John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), 
born in Dartmouth, Mass., married Esther Baker of North 
Adams, Mass., and settled in Farmington, N. Y. He was a 
preacher of note in the Society of Friends. He is said to have 
died without issue. His widow died in advanced age about 1850. 

139 
John Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 7 Nov. 1785, married, 25 Jan. 
1809, Mary, dau. of Edward and Eliphal (Sherman) Slade of 
Westport, Mass. He died 3 March 1867. She was born 3 Nov. 
1784, and died 24 March 1861. See Friends Record at West- 
port, Mass. 

Lydia b. 20 Aug. 181 1 ; m. 9 Nov. 1870, Geo. Webster; 

d. s. p. 6 Jan. 1892. 
Clarkson b. 30 Sept. 1813; d. 11 Feb. 1835. 
Alvah b. 20 April 1816; d. 9 May 1839. 
217. Leonard b. 7 Feb. 1818; m. Esther Austin. 
Elizabeth b. 1 April 1823; d. 28 Sept. 1841. 
Hannah b. 10 Aug. 1824; m. 26 Nov. 1846, Benj. 

Davis; d. 29 July 1851. 
Olive b. 15 Oct. 1827; d. 26 April 1900. 
Mary S. b. 7 Feb. 1829. Unm. 

140 
Cornelius Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 22 Nov. 1791, married, 5 

June 1817, Mahala, dau. of John and Rhoda ( ) Fisher, 

who died 22 Oct. 1849, a & ed 6l y rs - He married, (2) 10 April 
1851, Ann. A., dau. of Amaziah and Elizabeth (Eldridge) 
Delano, who died at Acushnet, 4 Aug. 1896, aged 87-1-6. He 
died 17 June 1874. 

Susan b. 17 April 1818; d. 18 Sept. 1832. 

Paul b. 24 May 1820. Went to San Francisco and was 

never heard from. 
Charles b. 21 Oct. 1823; m. 18 May 1851, Sarah M. 
Hammett, dau. of James and Sally, b. 1 Sept. 1833 ; d. 
16 March 1857, in Taunton, Mass. Ch., Georgiana 
Mahala b. 8 July 1852, d. 13 Dec. 1857, and Fannie 



160 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

May (or Florence) b. 23 May 1857. He d. 17 May 
1857. His widow m. 29 Sept. 1861, Charles E. Lam- 
bert in Bridgewater, Mass. 

Esther b. 16 July 1826; m. 3 May 1846, Jeremiah Ham- 
mett. 

James Shepherd b. 25 June 1828; d. 11 Sept. 1832. 

John Warren b. 10 Oct. 1831 ; m. 15 Nov. 1864, Mary 
Gibbs Sanford, dau. of John and Sylvia ; d. 1 April 
1899. She b. 3 June 1836, d. 20 Aug. 1895. Ch., 
Louise Howland b. 25 Oct. 1865, m. 14 April 1891, 
Wallace Sherman Clark, and has five children, and 
Anna Lombard b. 24 Sept. 1871 m. 27 June 1900, 
Franklin E. Smith. 
218. James Shepherd b. 28 Nov. 1833 ; m. Anna M. Austin. 

141 

Caleb Macomber (Nathaniel 5 , John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 29 Sept. 1796, married, 24 Sept. 
1840, Abby, dau. of Noah and Martha (Hathaway) Gifford of 
Little Compton, R. I. He died 3 Sept. 1873. She was born 16 
Nov. 1807, and died 8 Nov 1883. Both buried in Westport, 
Mass. 

Dr. Nathaniel G. b. 20 July 1841 ; m. 10 April 1873, Mary 
Ann Kaighn. He was a physician at Central Village, West- 
port, Mass., d. 7 Mch. 1905. Ch., Abbie b. Nov. 1874, d. 27 Nov. 
1875 ; and Mary S. b. 14 March 1878, m. 20 June 1900, Herbert 
Huntington Longfellow of Boston, Mass. 

Hannah Shepherd b. 28 Oct. 1843. Unm. 

Samuel Haskins b. 14 Nov. 1845. Unm. 

Alvah David b. 2 Aug. 1849. Unm. 

Caleb Milton b. 2 Sept. 1852; m. 31 Dec. 1876, Ella V. Gif- 
ford. He d. at New Bedford 18 March 1904. Son, Alton Irving 
b. 7 Dec. 1889. 

142 

William McCumber (Joshua 5 , John 4 , John 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ), born 1795, died in 1869, aged 75-4-21. He married at 
Newcastle, Coshocton Co., Ohio, Nancy, dau. of James Barnes, 
born in 1800. She died in 1874. Children: 

Eliza Ann b. 12 April 1819; m. McFetridge; d. 1897. 

Res. Rinard, Wayne Co., 111. Ch., Mary, Lyman and Francis. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY l6l 

James b. 8 March 1821 ; killed in an expedition against the 
Indians in Washington Territory, 5 Aug. 1857. He m. Sarah 
Arnold. She m. (2) James Carone and d. 5 Dec. 1877. Ch., 
John m. a Miss John and 1. sometime at Guide Rock, Neb., hav- 
ing ch., Sarah, Alonzo, Don Juan, and John Dewey ; Amratta or 
Emily m. 2 Nov. 1861, Francis H. Farmer of Roscoe, O., and d. 
26 Jan. 1887. He was b. 6 July 1833 and d. 10 Nov. 1896. 
Ann m. Benner. 

John b. 1827; m. Sarah Ann Landis b. Nov. 1828 in Washing- 
ton Co., Pa. He d. in 1897, aged 70, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 
Five ch., Van Don b. 1850 at Massalon, O., m. Miss Bailey at 
Norwich, Conn., and has two ch., May, who m. Frederick John- 
son, and Clarence; Ida May b. 1853 at Zanesville, O., m. Charles 
Reuben Jones of Wilmington, N. C. ; Zoa Louise b. 1855 at 
Zanesville, O. m. Dr. George Alfred Evans in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
and has ch., Sarah, Alfred, John and George C. ; Eva Lee b. 1858 
in Dural Dale, O., m. DeWitt C. Love of Wilmington, N. C. ; Dr. 
John Lincoln b. 1861 ; m. Julia Brown in Brooklyn, N. Y. He 
graduated at Long Island College and was Surgeon in the 14th 
Regt. in the Spanish-American War, with rank of Major. 

Mary m. John Lumm. 9 ch. 

Andrew, died young. 

Jane b. 16 April 1831 ; m. James Jordan, (2) Starker. 

William m. . Had two sons and two daugh- 
ters. He was a stone cutter and lived, at one time, in Browns- 
ville, Neb. 

143 

James Macomber (Abner 5 , William*, William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), married Nancy, dau. of George and Sarah Bailey, and 
lived in Tiverton, R. I. She died a widow, at Fall River, Mass., 
8 Dec. 1862, aged 83 yrs. 7 mos. 

219. John b. 3 March 1818 (?), m. Sarah J. Downing. 

220. Abner b. ; m. Mary Wilcox. 

221. Joseph b. 1822; m. Esther Chase, (2) Abby J. Man- 

chester. 

222. Lorenzo D. b. 5 Nov. 1823 ; m. Elizabeth Chase. 

223. Benjamin b. ; m. Lydia M. Sherman. 

Catherine b. ; m. 16 Mch. 1834, James Seymore. 



I 62 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

144 

Wilbur Macomber (Abner 5 , John 4 , William 3 , William 2 , Wil- 
liam 1 ) married Rhoda, dau. of Gardner and Ruth Manchester 
and lived in Tiverton, R. I. She died, a widow, at Fall River, 
Mass., 7 Nov. 1888, aged 98 yrs. Children, so far as known. 

224. Abner b. 1827; m. Ellen Parlin. 

Abby b. abt. 1838; m. 26 Oct. 1855, Benjamin R. Man- 
chester, (2) 28 June 1857, Joseph Macomber, her 
cousin. 

Son, d. at Fall River, 14 Sept. 1864, aged 25. Married. 

145 
William Macomber (William 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , 
William 1 ), born Marshfield, Mass., 29 July 1767, married, 18 
Dec. 1791, Sarah, dau. of Noah and Alice (Little) Hatch. He 
moved to Readfield, Maine, in 1808 and died there 29 Aug. 1843. 
Farmer. His wife was born in Marshfield 2 Dec. 1771 and died 
in Readfield 15 Dec. 1855. The first eight children are recorded 
in Marshfield. 

Sally b. 6 July 1792; m. Frank Bean, 25 Oct. 1812. 
Ruth White b. 19 Dec. 1793; m. John M. Shaw, 1 
Feb. 1835. 

225. William b. 31 Aug. 1795; m. Polly Sturtevant. 

226. Saunders b. 7 Oct. 1797; m. Julia Bean. 

227. Noah Hatch b. 6 Dec. 1799; m. Phebe Dutton. 
Son b. 6 Feb. 1801 ; d. 14 March 1801. 

228. John Calvin b. 8 Aug. 1803 ; m. Hannah Langdon. 
Mary b. 23 Dec. 1805 ; m. Gamaliel Sturtevant, 24 Jan. 

1830. 
Anne b. 26 Sept. 1808; m. Consider Sturtevant, 8 Jan. 

1828. 
Lewis Martin b. 14 Feb. 181 1; m. 16 Sept. 1837, Mary 

E. Jewett; d. s. p. in Hodgdon, Me., 8 May 1895. She 

b. 25 Dec. 1817, in Amherst, N. H., d. 16 Feb. 1899, in 

Hodgdon, Me. 

229. James Hervey b. 2 Dec. 1813; m. Mary Jane Billington. 
Elvira H. b. 11 May 1816; m. 23 Jan. 1840, Giles Straw; 

d. 3 Oct. 1892. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 163 

I46 

Dr. Charles Macomber (William', Thomas 4 , Thomas 8 , 
Thomas 2 , Wiliam 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 18 July 1780, 
graduated at Harvard College in 1799 and practiced as a physi- 
cian in Marshfield. He was much respected for his character 
and abilities. He married, 21 April 1805, Dorothy Hitchcock of 
Halifax, Mass., dau. of Gad and Sages. She was born 8 Feb. 
1779 and died 6 May i860. He died in Marshfield, 16 June 1835, 
and was buried in the tomb with his father, where also their 
wives were buried. Children : 
230. Charles Warren b. 1 June 1808; m. Hannah P. Tilden, 
(2) Lucy Hatch. 
Angeline b. 19 Oct. 1809; m. Rev. Charles Smith. Had 
son, Rev. Charles Macomber Smith, Somerville, Mass. 

147 
Thomas Macomber (Thomas 5 , Onesimus 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , 

William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 20 July 1768, married (1) 

3 April 1794, Betsey Curtis of Hanover, Mass., who died 22 July 

1807, aged 42 yrs. No children. He married, (2) 3 March 1808, 

Becca Bowker, dau. of Benjamin and Jemima, of Pembroke, 

Mass., born 25 April 1787. She died 10 Oct. 1883. He lived in 

Hanson, Mass., and died there 13 June 1840. Buried in Fern 

Hill Cemetery. Two children : 

George b. 22 Feb. 1809; m. 1 Jan. 1842, Mary M. M. Ever- 
son, dau. of Richard and Mary (Munroe) of English descent. 
He d. in Hanson, 12 Feb. 1901. She, b. 1 Nov. 1813, d. 13 Aug. 
1898. Had one child, Caroline W. b. 11 Apr. 1849 m - 2 4 Dec - 
1874, Alfred W. Carr, and had a son, George E. Carr, b. 3 Jan. 
1876, who m. 26 Sept. 1899, Gertrude L. Josselyn and had dau. 
Verna Louise Carr b. 4 Aug. 1903. 

Betsey b. 19 April 181 1; m. Robert Perry; d. Mch. 1904. 
Ch., Henry J. and Evaline F. 

148 
Rev. Thomas Macomber (Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 17 Aug. 1773, 
married Phebe Lincoln. She was born in Bedford, N. H., 25 
Aug. 1778, dau. of Ezekiel Lincoln, who came from Abing- 
ton, Mass. He became pastor of the Baptist Church in Sumner, 



164 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Maine, in 1804, and served till 1816, when he was called to the 
pastorate of the Baptist Church in Guilford, Me., 1816-1836. He 
served as town clerk and on the school committee. He is remem- 
bered as a zealous and able minister. He died in Guilford, 12 
Dec. 185 1. His wife died 22 Jan. 1863. 

Charles b. in Bridgewater, Mass., 17 April 1797; m. 
Susan Morgan b. 1798. Had son John, b. abt. 1822. 

231. Thomas b. in Jay, Me., 16 Aug. 1799; m. Lucy S. Alden, 

23 April 1820. 
Prudence b. 5 Dec. 1804; m - Jonathan Grover, 20 Mch. 

1823, d. abt. 1884. 
Deliverance b. 7 Nov. 1808 ; m. 27 Mch. 1827, Lucius 

Chinery; d. 2J Dec. 1871, in Guilford, Me. 
Mercy b. 18 Mch. 1814; m. 5 May 1831, John Herring; 
d. 2 Mch. 1902. 

232. William b. 20 Feb. 1818; m. Mary J. Edes, 6 July 1845. 
Mary b. 21 Aug. 1802; m. Isaac Herring, 8 Mch. 1819; 

d. 8 Nov. 1851 (7). 

149 
Rev. .Joseph Macomber (Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Bridgewater, Mass., 1776, married, 
9 April 1798, Olive, dau. of Joseph and Jemima (Perkins) Rey- 
nolds of Bridgewater. He lived in Jay, Maine, where he was 
pastor of the Baptist Church fourteen years. He died 5 Sept. 
1857. She died 25 Dec. 1846. Children: 

Betsey b. 7 July 1799; m. Elijah Jackson of Jay, Me. 
Sally b. 19 April 1801 ; m. Geo. Doughty of Sanger- 

ville, Me. 
Mahala b. 12 Feb. 1803; m. Samuel Jackson. 
2 33- Joseph Reynolds b. 25 Jan. 1809; m. Nancy Reynolds. 

234. Azel b. 10 April 1806; m. Sophia Reynolds. 

235. Ichabod b. 18 May 1812; m. Rebecca Hayden. 

236. James Ripley b. 7 Feb. 1822; m. Nancy Campbell. 

150 

Deacon Ichabod Macomber (Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Bridgewater, Mass., 5 Nov. 1777, 
married (1) 28 Aug. 1806, Sarah, dau. of Jonathan and Martha 
(Willis) Howard of Bridgewater. She was born 17 May 1788 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1C5 

and died 25 May 1818. He married (2) 12 June 1820, Abigail 
(West) Brown, dau. of Samuel Massey and Polly (Young) 
West, born 2 Apr. 1789, in Salem, Mass. He lived in Easton 
and Boston, Mass. He died 1 Oct. 1845 (8) at Jamaica Plains, 
Mass. Widow died 20 May 1863. 

Charles Augustus b. 24 June 1807; trader at Rockland, 
Me., in 1850; m. 2 Dec. 1830, Martha, dau. of Edwin 
and Sally (Cole) Howard; d. 8 July 1888, at West 
Bridgewater, Mass. She, born 2 Dec. 181 1, died 18 
Mch. 1895. One son, Charles A. b. 21 Jan. 1832, in 
Boston, m. 9 April 1863, Fannie M. Dunbar, who d. 
Jan. 1871, (2) 31 Mch. 1875, Helen A. Tobey s. p. 

237. Ichabod b. 31 Oct. 1810; m. Mary E. Brewer. 
Albert b. 30 June 1816; d. 17 Mch. 1874, at Worcester, 
Mass. Unm. 

Sally b. 25 Apr. 1818; d. 6 Oct. 1820. 
Children by second marriage : 

238. William b. 3 July 182 1 ; m. Mary T. Leads, (2) Jose- 

phine Moore. 

239. James Brown b. 28 Mch. 1823; m. Sarah A. T. Mann. 

240. Sally Howard b. 13 May 1825; m. Henry E. Nesmith, 4 

Mch. 1 85 1. 
Henry M. b. 1 Sept. 1827; d. 26 Aug. 1891, at Astoria, 
N. Y. Unm. 

241. Mary JudsO'N b. 23 Sept. 1830; m. Wm. C. Merriam, 4 

Mch. 1 85 1. 

Isaac Macomber (Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Bridgewater, Mass., married Elizabeth Austin 
and lived in Jay and Sangerville, Me. 

242. Asa Austin b. 11 May 1805; m. Sarah McLanathan, (2) 

Romelia Campbell, (3) Mary T. Watson. 
David b. 26 March 1809; d. 3 April 1809. 

243. Isaac b. 6 Sept. 1810; m. Britannia Macomber. 
Dura b. 18 March 1814; prob. died young. 
Justus b. 21 March 1817. Unmarried. 

152 
Winchester Macomber (Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Bridgewater, Mass., 4 May 1780, 



I 66 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

married, 1805, Mary H., dau. of John and Mary (Parks) Stearns, 
born Jan. 1782 or 1784, in Watertown, Mass. He lived in Jay, 
Me., where he died 8 Feb. 1850. She died 17 Nov. 1859. 

244. Tilson b. 22 Jan. 1806; m. Mary Reynolds. 
Edward b. 2 Nov. 1807 ; unmarried. 
Sophronia b. 4 Nov. 1809 ; unmarried. 
Winchester Stearns b. 11 Feb. 1812; m. Louisa, dau. 

of John and Dolly (Bailey) Holmes of Monmouth, Me. 
He d. in Dedham, Mass., 13 Dec. 1873. She d. 8 April 
1888, aged 85-11-22. 

Sally b. 1 Sept. 1814; d. 29 Aug. 1816. 

Samuel b. 13 July 1817; d. 2 Feb. 1838 at Dedham, 
Mass. 

Mary Stearns b. 23 Dec. 1820; m. Rev. Wm. Quint and 
1. at N. Berwick, Me. 

Albert b. 17 May 1822; m. Eliza J. (Macomber) Kim- 
ball; 1. at Jay, Me. No ch. 

Sarah b. 30 Oct. 1824; unmarried. 

245. George R. b. 7 May 1827; m. Mary Manwell, (2) Lydia 

Humphrey, (3) Lucy Townsend. 

246. Charles Augustus b. abt. 1830; m. Elizabeth A. Parker. 

SEVENTH GENERATION 
153 

Bradford Macomber (Abiathar 6 , Abiathar 5 , John 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Taunton, Mass., 15 Dec. 1817, married 
Mary J. Hazlett, dau. of William and Ann, born in Ireland. He 
died in Boston 11 June 1892. She died in Boston 2 Jan. 1892, 
aged 76 years. Children as found in White Genealogy, with 
additions from records from the State House. 

Elmira T. b. 26 Jan. 1846; d. 10 Dec. 1846. 

Susan J. b. 4 July 1848; m. James C. Purington, 7 Sept. 1875. 

John T. b. 16 Dec. 1849; m - (0 20 Au g- ^70, Annie M., dau. 
of Wm. and Jane Hazlett. She d. 8 July 1872, aged 21. He m. 
(2) 6 May 1873, Julia C. Ruby, age 20, dau. of Jacob and Bar- 
bara, in Boston. 

William R. b. 7 Oct. 1851. 

Bradford H. b. 12 May 1853; m. 30 May 1896, Mary E. 
Megone in Boston. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 67 

Mary A., twin to Bradford; d. in infancy. 

Charles A. b. 12 April 1856. 

Elizabeth A. b. 8 May 1859; m. Ardrie. 

154 

Horatio G. Macomber (Lemuel , Lemuel 5 , Henry 4 , William', 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Charleston, N. H., married Sarah 
Arnold, dau. of William and Mary, born in Palermo, Me. She 
died in Boston, Mass., 21 Feb. 1889, aged 58 yrs. 2 mos. Her 
will names husband and children, Charles, Frank, Ida and Fred. 

Charles b. in Boston 7 Sept. 1851 ; m. Stella A. . 

George Warren b. 17 May 1853; d. 11 Aug. 1863. 

Frank L. b. abt. 1855 '> m - 5 Oct. 1882, Myra E., dau. of Wm. 
P. and Frances G. (Bartlett) Burnham, b. at Milford, N. H., 4 
July 1859, (2) 20 April 1899, at Everett, Mass., Barbara, dau. 
of Joseph and Anne (Horton) Humphrey, b. in New Brunswick. 

Ida Marion b. in Charlestown, Mass., 15 Nov. 1857; m. John 
S. Kilduf. 

Fred F. b. ; m. 4 Feb. 1879, in Boston, Emma E. Jen- 
sen. She m. (2) 29 Oct. 1899, Joseph C. Campbell 

Horatio G. b. in Langdon, N. H., 7 Aug. 1853; d - J 5 A P ril 
1864. 

Grace E. b. in Langdon, 31 March 1865; d. 16 Oct. 1865. 

155 

Daniel Macomber (Lemuel , Lemuel 5 , Henry 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born about 1843 in Alstead, N. H., married 
( 1 ) Ellen M. French, dau. of John M. and Ellen M. She died 
at Everett, Mass., 30 July, 1876, aged 26 yrs. He married (2) 27 
Dec. 1877, at Everett, Julia A. Leek, dau of Isaac and Julia, 
born in England abt. 1858. Cf. Philbrook Genealogy, p. 152. 

Minnie A. d. in Everett, 23 July 1876, aged 5-8-11. 

Arthur H. d. in Everett, 1 Aug. 1876, aged 1 mo. 12 days. 

Daughter b. in Everett, 12 July 1875. 

Ada d. in Everett, 20 Oct. 1880, aged 6 mos. 

155 a. 
John Arnold Macomber (Bryant 6 , Lemuel 5 , Henry 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in New Bedford, Mass., 11 Oct. 
1812, married, 30 May 1835, Jerusha S. Hart, dau. of Joseph and 



I 68 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Mary (Smith) Hart, born in Dartmouth, Mass., 5 April 181 1. 
He died in New Bedford 15 April 1876. She died 5 Aug. 1873. 
Children : 

Mary H. b. 6 Jan. 1836; m. 24 Feb. 1864, Francis T. Akin. 
Ch., Thomas B. b. 10 Jan. 1866; m. 9 Jan. 1907, Llewellyn Hath- 
away of Scranton; Mary Alice b. 20 July 1867; and Charles 
Gardner b. 10 April 1869, m. Caroline Kelley, 29 Nov. 1898, and 
has son, C. Gardner, Jr., and dau. Carolyn. 

Annie T. b. 29 Jan. 1840; m. 3 Oct. 1866, Thomas Akin. Ch., 
Thomas R. m. Margaret Markham of St. Louis; John M., and 
Robert M. m. Gertrude Gardner of Ansonia, Conn. 

Catherine Treadway b. 23 March 1841 ; d. 28 Jan. 1842. 

Catherine Treadway b. 27 June 1843 5 m - William H. 
Mathews, 4 June 1869. Ch., Catherine L. m. Otis Seabury Cook 
of New Bedford; Helen Eustis, and William H. 

John Robert b. 21 April 1845; m - I2 Nov. 1874, Ella Borden 
Cooke. No ch. 

Emma Arnold b. 17 April 1848; m. 8 Jan. 1885, Alfred 
Munsen Butler. No ch. 

Linnie Jerusha b. 10 Dec. 1853 ; m. 17 Oct. 1878, Dr. Andrew 
Martin Pierce. Died Nov. 1905. Ch., Edward A., who d. Oct. 
1907; Elizabeth, Alice, and Curtis M. 

Helen Bryant b. 4 Feb. 1856; m. 16 Jan. 1879, Albion Turner 
Brownell. She d. 17 June 1903. Ch., Bryant M. m. Edna May 
Ehelinger of Corpus Christi, Texas; Morris R. m. Laura D. 
Hitch of Brooklyn, N. Y., and has son, Morris R., Jr. ; and 
Annie, deceased. 

Lucy Crapo b. 31 Dec. 1857; m. 10 June 1884, Albert H. 

Ewing. He d. Dec. 1893. She m. (2) 10 Nov. 1897, Herman 

Winter. No ch. 

156 

Isaac E. Macomber (Luther C. 6 , Simeon 5 , Stephen 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Middleborough 16 Oct. 1827; married, 
18 May 1852, Celia, dau. of Solomon and Salome (Eaton) White, 
born 2 Sept. 1830. He was a farmer in Middleborough, Mass. 
Children : 

George Elton b. 8 Nov. 1853 ; d. 10 Oct. 1877. Unm. 

Ellen Frances b. 20 Sept. 1857; m. 27 May 1885, Fisher 
Ames. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 69 

Horace White b. 4 Sept. i860; m. 28 Nov. 1883 Helen, dan. 
of Daniel and Elizabeth (Fuller) Sherman, b. 22 May 1854. 

157 

Elbridge H. Macomber (Luther C. 6 , Simeon 5 , Stephen 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Lakeville 6 March 1835, married 
25 June 1864, Thalia Maria, dau. of Nahum and Eliza (Wil- 
liams) Keith. He died 14 May 1900. 

Annie M. d. 15 Aug. 1871, aged 1-2-22. 

Harry Eaton b. abt. 1866; m. 11 June 1888 Mary A. Bacon. 

Frank Thompson m. Maud . Res., Boston. 

158 

Daniel Whitton Macomber (David 8 , David 5 , Jacob 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Westford, Vt, 25 Jan. 1820, 
married (1) Angelia Chase, (2) Jane Clark. He died in West- 
ford 13 March 1891. 

Vernon Chase m. and 1. at Pleasant Valley, Vt. Several ch. 

Lillian b. 3 Aug. 1866; m. Irving Hobart. 2 ch., Hazel and 
Grant. 

David H. b. 1868; m. Miss Hovey; one dau.. 

John A. b. 24 July 1870. Unm. 

Frank E. b. 27 Aug. 1872; m. and 1. in Hardwick, Vt. 

159 

James Hervey Macomber (Jacob 6 , David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Westford, Vt., 17 April 1823, married, 
1 July 1849, Frances Marion Beach, born 28 Feb. 1828, dau. of 
Thompson and Betsey (Wales) Beach. He died in Westford, 
Vt., 14 Oct. 1888. He held many town offices, was Supt. of 
Schools for many years and represented the town in the State- 
Legislature one year. 

Marion Eliza b. 2 June 1851; m. 10 June 1871 Henry M. 
Rice. 4 ch. Dr. Weston Henry Rice b. 17 July 1873; m. Nellie 
Hopkins and 1. in Oakland, Cal ; Winifred Emma Rice b. 2 Feb. 
1875; Martin Henry Rice b. 19 July 1885; Charles Macomber 
Rice b. 16 Nov. 1886. 

Emma Elmira b. 2 Aug. 1854; m. 10 Jan. 1877 George A. 
Rice. 3 ch. Don Martin b. 5 June 1880; Florence Emma b. 1 



170 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

March 1887, m. Robert C. Flagg and has son, Cedric Rice Flagg, 
b. 9 Aug. 1908, and Floyd George, twin to the last. 

Bessie Florence b. 7 March 1863; m. 24 Sept. 1884, Don A. 
Stone of Burlington, Vt. 

James Hervey b. 18 April 1867; m. 28 Nov. 1899 Nellie A. 
Mower of Burlington, Vt. He is a lawyer at Burlington. Two 
children, James Hervey b. 29 Sept. 1903, and Herrick Mower, b. 
11 June 1908. 

160 

Solomon Hobart Macomber (Jacob 6 , David 5 , Jacob 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Westford, Vt., 12 April 1828, 
married, 11 May 1851, Rebecca, dau. of Joseph and Sally (Gant) 
Hamblin. He has served as Representative and State Senator. 
Two children : 

Henry b. 4 Sept. 1852; m. 5 Aug. 1879, Lucy, dau. of John 
Castle. 

Luna Eunice b. 20 Dec. 1865 ; d. 14 Dec. 1885. 

161 

Francis Billings Macomber (Jacob 6 , David-"', Jacob 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Westford, Vt., 16 May 1843, 
married, 20 Oct. 1868, Hannah Irene, dau. of John and Mary 
(Ward) Beach. He is a farmer in Westford, Vt., and has held 
various town offices. He served four years in the First Ver- 
mont Cavalry and has represented the town in the State Legis- 
lature. Three children born in Westford. 

Jennie Elmira b. 16 Oct. 1870; m. 29 Oct. 1894 John E. Allen. 
2 ch. John Francis Allen b. 11 June 1895 and d. 14 Jan. 1897; 
Irene Ellen Allen b. 7 May 1904. 

Charles Francis b. 24 Feb. 1876; m. 13 June 1900 Lula, dau. 
of Cassius and Carrie (Chase) Cobb. Ch., Carolyn b. 19 April 
1 90 1 ; and Merle b. 24 Feb. 1903. 

Eva Mariette b. 5 Feb. 1882. 

162 
David Wright Macomber (Alvan 6 , David 5 , Jacob 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 29 Oct. 1828, mar- 
ried, 12 Nov. 1850, Harriet S. Robinson of Worthington, Mass., 
dau. of Silas and Cynthia. He died 24 Nov. 1856. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 7 I 

Mercy Elizabeth b. 25 Dec. 1851 ; d. 4 June [852. 

Frances Elinor b. 15 Jan. 1854; m. 1 May 1873 John A. 
Dyer. Ch., Bessie b. 1874 d. 7 April 1876, and Ray b. in towa 
1877. She d. 18 Oct. 1899 at Springfield. 

Arthur Wright b. 3 May 1856; m. Mary Dill of Cumming- 

ton, Mass. He died in Conway, Mass., in 1906, leaving ch. Mrs. 

Lillias Crandall, Beth, E. Wright, Donald R., Russell K., and 

Gladys. 

163 

Sophronia Macomber (Alvan 6 , David"', Jacob 4 , William', 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 21 Nov. 1836, mar- 
ried, 18 Nov. 1857, Seth H. Healy of Chesterfield. Children: 

Martha G. Healy b. 20 Jan. 1861 ; m. F. D. Cleaveland. No 
children. 

Gilbert B. Healy b. 28 Jniie 1864; m. 10 Mch. 1890 Martha 
B. Adams. Ch., Robert A. b. 14 Aug. 1891 and Fred Clark b. 27 
April 1 90 1. 

James Alden Healy, b. 26 April 1868 ; m. 2 Aug. 1893 Clara 
Adams. Ch., Percy Maxwell b. 7 Aug. 1894; and Ralph. 

Fred Chandler Healy b. 8 July 1871 ; m. 1895, Rose Healy; 

d. 14 Feb. 1896. 

164 

Joseph Burnell Macomber (Alvan 6 , David 5 , Jacob 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Chesterfield, Mass., 12 Jan. 1839, 
married, 14 Nov. 1861, Lydia Bisbee. Children: 

Frank b. 12 July 1863; m. Mary Angeline Baker of Savoy. 
Mass. Ch., James F. b. 12 May 1893; Walter Alfred b. 7 Sept. 
1896; and Lawrence Baker b. 1899. 

Alfred b. 27 Aug. 1867 ; d. 2 June 1877. 

Grace, adopted May 1883; m. 23 Jan. 1901, John Rhoades. 
Ch., Dorothy b. 2"] July 1902. 

165 

Benjamin F. Macomber (David 6 , Daniel"', Jacob 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Easton, Mass., 15 June 1808, married, 

25 Oct. 1826, Mary L., dau. of David and Chloe ( ) W ado. 

He died in Easton 4 Oct. 1863. 

Daniel Perkins b. abt. 1827; drowned 9 Dec. 1836. 

Benjamin F. b. 6 Aug. 1837; m. 16 Nov. 1855, Hannah, dau. 
of Joseph Welch, b. 16 June 1840. She d. 15 Jan. 1899. Ch., 



172 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

son b. 16 Nov. 1859 d. 17 Nov 1859; Nettie L. b. 10 Mch. 1864, 
m. 27 Apr. 1885 J. Allen Sackett and had dau. Helen Gertrude 
Sackett b. 28 Nov. 1885. Benjamin F. Macomber d. 26 Aug-. 

1896, aged 59-5- J 8- 

Henry Clay b. 20 Nov. 1848; m. 13 Oct. 1871, Cora N., dau. 
of Wm. H. and Sylvania (Gardner) Frost of Daxbury, Mass. 
She was b. 6 Mch. 1852 and d. 26 Oct. 1896. One child, Ells- 
worth F. b. 6 Sept. 1877. 

Augustus T. b. 18 July 1853; m. 23 Dec. 1874 \ngeline L., 
dau. of Otis R. and Mary A. (Bryant) Leonard. He d 17 Dec. 
1882. One child, Benjamin F. b. 8 May 1875, who m. 14 June 
1899 in Boston, Frances Alice Magee. dau of John and Mary A. 
(Baker), age 33. 

166 

Elijah Macomber (Elijah 6 , Elijah", William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born on Block Island, Mass., 13 May 1796, 
married, 3 Feb. 1819, Deborah, daM. of Nathaniel and Priscilla 
(Shaw) Thomas of Plymouth, Mass Mason by trade, perhaps 
also a preacher. He died at Mattapoisett, Mass., 23 March 1855, 
aged 58-10-10. She died at Mattajoisett, 21 Sept. 1883, aged 82 
yrs. 8 mos. Children born in Plymouth, Mass. 

Deborah b. 1819. 

Nancy T. b. 1821. 

Elijah b. 1823; m. Alice of New Shoreham? A son, 

Robert W. d. at Lancaster, Mass., 30 fan. 1871, aged 20 yrs. 

John C. b. 1825. 

Hannah L. b. 1828; m. 17 May 1845, Joseph H. Hammond. 

Louisa V. b. 1839; m. 19 Oct. 1859 Wm. A. West of Fair- 
haven. 

William T. b. 5 Dec. 1848; m. 8 Dec. 1871, at Fairhaven, 
Ella lane, dau. of Seth and Rhoda T. (Davis) De 1 ano, m. (2) 
16 Nov. 1884, Mrs. Hattie A. Ellis. 

167 

John Macomber (Elijah' 1 , Elijah", William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , 
William 1 ), born, 1801, in Plymouth, Mass., married 11 Aug. 
1822, Eleanor, dau. of Wm. Leonard, born 1809. Mason by 
trade. Moved to Boston, thence to Monmouth, Me. H? mar- 
ried (2) 22 Oct. 1874, Hannah, dau. of Daniel and Betsey (Coie) 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 73 

Foster. He died in Monmouth at age of 90. Second wife b. 1 
Nov. 1805. Children born in Plymouth, Mass. 

Eleanor b. 21 Dec. 1825; m. Joseph Jackson of Bo 
Betsey Ann b. 21 Jan. 1827; m. Scth N. Mallows of 

Chatham, Mass. 
Augusta Jane b. 20 July 1830; m. in Boston, 15 April 

1847, Samuel Mallows. 
Emma F. b. 20 Aug. 1832; m. (1) Philo W. Chase, (2) 

Corydon Hannafbrd. 
John Alford b. 3 June 1835; died young. 

247. Eobert M. b. 17 July 1842; m. Sarah J. Smith. 

248. George L. b. 6 Dec. 1844; Allie E. Tinkham, (2) Abbie 

Tinker. 

168 

Warren S. Macomber (Elijah 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Middleboro, Mass., 27 April 181 5, 
married, 3 Jan. 1846, Jeannette T., dan. of Benjamin and Joanna 
(Washburn) Weston, born 19 Dec. 1819. He died at Plymouth, 
Mass., 20 Feb. 1876, aged 60-9-23. She died in Plymouth 23 
Sept. 1894, aged 74-9-3. 

Anne Warren b. 14 Oct. 185 1 ; m. 23 May 1878, Henry J. 
Whiting of Plymouth, where she still lives. 

Walter Spooner b. 26 Oct. 1854; d. 13 Oct. 1874. Unm. 

169 

Alden Macomber (Samuel 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Freetown or New Bedford, Mass., in 
1798, married Mary S. Pease, dau. of Jonathan and Hannah, of 
Springfield, Mass., and lived in Freetown, where he died 16 June 
1852, aged 54 yrs. She died 29 May 1885, aged 80-9-0. 

Homer b. 8 Sept. 1827; m. 19 Oct. 1865 ; Carrie Johnson; d. 14 
April 1896. Had dau. Lizzie B. 

Henry P. b. abt. 183 1 ; m. 4 Nov. 1854, Hannah B. Ashley, 
dau. of James and Philena (Macomber) ; d. 26 Oct. 1864, aged 
33 yrs. 7 mos. His widow m. (2) 9 Feb. 1869, James P. Gracie 
at Acushnet. Ch., daughter b. 11 Aug. 1855; Eliza b. 31 May 
1857; m. 5 May 1878 Charles G. Borden; James Alden b. 18 



174 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

March 1861 ; Susie A. m. 25 Oct. 1893 George A. Chase; Hen- 
rietta b. 24 June 1864; m. 15 June 1895 Arthur G. Rounsville. 

William, died unmarried. 

Samuel Alden, m. and 1. in Kansas. 2 or 3 ch. 

Richard Arnold. Unm. Went West. 

Laura, m. James Rockwell of New Bedford. 

Lucy b. abt. 1835 ; m. 1 Jan. 1857, James E. Ashley. 

Hannah P. m. 22 March 1858, Warren J. Spooner. 

170 

Samuel Macomber (Samuel 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Freetown 17 May 1803, married, Feb. 
1827, Peace Kirby of Dartmouth, Mass., dau. of Isaac and Hope. 
He died in Dartmouth, Mass., 15 Nov. i860. She died 20 June 
1 86 1. Two ch. 

Mary J. b. 20 May 1828; m. Sylvanus E. Studley; d. 1 July 
1900. 

Ezra Perry b. 2 Sept. 1833 in Fairhaven, Mass. ; m. 22 Mch. 
1858, Sylvia Russell Sanford, dau. of Hilary and Phebe (Kirby), 
of Dartmouth, Mass. He d. 3 Sept. 1883. Two ch., Carrie 
Perry b. 1 Aug. 1867 m. 4 Dec. 1895 Charles E. Littlefield ; and 
Charles Albert b. 2 Jan. 1872 m. 10 Aug. 1900 Alice Cornell 
Howland, dau. of Arthur and Mary Emma (Cornell). They 
have two ch., Alice Marian b. 13 Aug. 1901, and Russell How- 
land b. 23 Nov. 1903. 

171 

Richard E. Macomber (Samuel 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ) born in East Freetown, Mass., 25 May 1808, 
married in New Bedford, 20 Jan. 1833, Sarah Wady, dau. of 
William and Sarah. He was then of Fairhaven, Mass. She 
was born 22 March 1813 and died 23 Sept. 1856. He married 
(2) 24 Nov. 1870, Eliza A. Hursell, dau. of William and Mary 
Tuckerman. He died 19 Dec. 1887 and was buried with his first 
wife in the Rural Cemetery at New Bedford. His second wife 
died 24 Feb. 1890, aged 76 yrs. Children: 

George d. 30 June 1854, aged 20 years and 9 days. 

Mary E. b. 1836; m. Gilbert Rounsville, (2) Stowell. 

William E. b. abt. 1839; m. 24 Oct. 1871, Calista Brownell, 
dau. of John D. and Rhoda A. One child, Ethel. 



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175 



Charles b. 11 Jan. 1845; d. 28 Oct. 187 1. 

Albert b. 22 Oct. 1841 ; m. 7 Oct. 1862, Mary Lucinda, dau. 
of Joseph Kellogg, b. in Manchester, Mo., 18 June 1841. He d. 
in San Francisco, Cal, 29 Mch., 1870, and she m. (2) Edward 
Clark Ward. Albert Macomber had one dau. Gertrude Ellen 
b. in Chicago 14 Oct. 1863, who m. Fenimore J. Cooper, 8 Dec. 
1886. 

172 

Arnold W. Macomber (Samuel 6 , Elijah 7 ', William*, William 8 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in 1812, married, 4 July 1839 Catherine 
J. Wilcox of Dartmouth, Mass., born about 1819. lie died in 
Dartmouth 26 Oct. 1870. She died 8 Nov. 1859, dau. of Charl 
and Rebecca Wilcox. 

Rebecca Y. b. 5 May 1840; m. 17 Sept. 1868 Charles G. Jay, 
s. p. 

Alden T. b. 1841. Unm. Died 30 April 1863 in hosp. at 
Newburg, N. C. Served in the Civil War. 

Sarah E. b. 1843 ; m. 27 May 1864, William D. Ryder. 2 ch. 

Lyman A. b. 20 Nov. 1845 '> m - 2 4 Feb. 1872 Julia A. Denham 
of Acushnet. No ch. Fie served 3 yrs. 9 mos. in the Civil War. 
Was 7 mos. in Andersonville prison. Lives in Providence, R. I. 

Mary E. b. 17 Sept. 1848; m. 31 Oct. 1865 George II. Wins- 
low, s. p. 

Irving W. b. 27 Sept. 1855; d. 21 Sept. 1881. Unm. 

Benjamin Franklin, d. at age of 9 mos. 

i/3 

Joshua L. Macomber (Joshua , Elijah', William 4 , William 3 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born in Midleborough, Mass., 25 May 1807, 
married, 18 Oct. 1828, Hannah D. Cowen of Rochester, Mass., 
dau. of Jonathan and Elizabeth. He worked some years as a 
mason in Boston. Died at Rochester 23 March 1841. His wife 
died 6 April 1895, aged 87 yrs. 6 mos. One child, 

Capt. Joshua L. b. in Rochester, 16 Jan. 1829; m. (1) in 
Wareham, Mass., 15 May 1853, Sophronia D., dau. of Seth and 
Christina (Dexter) Cowen, who was b. 26 June 1835 and d. at 
Mattapoisett, Mass., 23 Oct. 1874. Fie m. (2) 1 March 1875, 
Mary G., dau. of Seth and Almira G. (Lewis) Hiller. He 
belonged to the Society of Friends. Served several years on the 



176 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

School Committee of Mattapoisett, where he d. 23 July 1904. His 
widow m. (2) 1 June 1908, Walter R.Vance. Children by first 
marriage : 

Susan M. b. 18 Feb. 1854; m. 30 May 1875, Frederick H. Gif- 
ford; d. 18 Feb. 1877. 

Lizzie H. b. 8 April 1858; d. 14 Aug. 1861. 

Children by second marriage : 

Joshua L. b. 8 Sept. 1876; m. 29 Sept. 1897, Berthia C. Bow- 
man. 

Chloe E. b. 12 Dec. 1878; m. 29 May 1902, Frank W. Fraits 
of Westport. 

Seth H. b. 27 Oct. 1888. 

174 

Simeon Andrews Macomber (Joshua 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , 
William 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Freetown, Mass., 21 May 
1816, married Nancy A., dau. of Stephen and Mercy Robinson. 
She was born on Nashewena Island, Duke's County, Mass. 
Intentions of marriage recorded at Chilmark, Mass., 1 Aug. 1840. 
She died at New Bedford, Mass., 31 Jan. 1862, aged 42 yrs. He 
married (2) at New Bedford, 5 Dec. 1865, Mary A., widow of 
Hiram N. Macomber and dau. of Samuel and Mary Dunham, 
born at Sandwich, Mass., about 1818. He died 8 Oct. 1886. 
Children : 

Mary E. b. 1841 ; m. James P. Westgate, 1 Nov. 1857. 

Joshua W. b. 27 June 1844; d. 25 Oct. 1849. 

Hannah J. b. 1845. 

Clara Augusta b. 20 Feb. 1853; d. 29 Dec. 1863. 

William T. d. 11 Nov. 1861, aged 5 yrs. 

Emma C. d. 7 Nov. 1871, aged 24-10-1. 

175 

Orrin Macomber (Levi 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 3 , John 2 , 
William 1 ), born 13 Dec. 1809, married, 7 Nov. 1830, Sally Den- 
nis, dau. of Robert and Alice, of Westport, Mass. Mason by 
trade. He died 22 Feb. 1869. She died 3 Sept. 1848, aged 39- 
10-15. Children: 

Robert F. b. 12 May 1832; m. 18 Feb. 1858, Eliza M., dau. of 
Robert S. and Sarah (Tripp) Lawton; d. 30 Sept. 1889. She 
was born 2 Nov. 1838. Ch., Sarah E. b. 25 Nov. 1858, m. 22 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



•77 



May 1879, Capt. Herbert F. Tripp of Westport, and d s. p. 28 
Aug. 1890; Mabel b. 22 Sept. 1865, m. 31 Oct. 1888, Ji jse F. 
Pierce, and has children: Beatrice M. Pierce b. 23 Nov. 1893, 
and Muriel B. Pierce b. 8 April 1901 ; and Jessie S. b. 23 May 
1872. 

Philander W. b. 6 March 1834; m. 30 Oct. 1856, Mary E. 
Davis, dau. of Abner and Abby, b. April 1833. Lives in West- 
port, Mass. Dau. Mary H. b. i860, m. 5 Dec. 1880 Godfrey W. 
Tripp. 

Alice S. b. 4 July 1837; d. 28 Dec. 1854. 

Orrin S. b. June 1840; d. at Dominique. Sailor. 

Hannah E. b. 11 March 1844; m - 2 7 Nov. 1867 James W. 
Bemis. One child, Frederick E. Bemis b. 9 May 1869, m. 
Minerva S. Little of Somerville, Mass., and had son b. 17 Sept. 
1904. 

176 

William E. Macomber (Levi 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , William 8 , 
John 2 , William 1 ), born 27 Aug. 1819, married, 30 Nov. 1843, 
Mary, dau. of Wm. and Betsey C. (Rogers) Wilber of North 
Dartmouth, Mass., who died at Mattapoisett 14 Sept. 1876, aged 
53 yrs. Cooper by trade. He died at Mattapoisett, Mass., 22 
March 1889. He married (2) 31 Oct. 1882 Mrs. Louisa Snow, 
dau. of John and Sylvia (Sherman) Perkins. Children by first 



marriage : 



Mary Ellen b. 4 July 1845 ; d- 2 5 Dec - J 866. 
Hannah Fobes b. 20 May 1848; m. 14 Dec. 1869, Lewis Frank 
Smith. 

George Edwin b. in New Bedford 8 May 1852; m. 3 July 

1877 Georgia A. Tripp of Mattapoisett dau. of Ebenezer and 
Lydia A. (Stevens). 

Hilliard Mayhew b. in New Bedford 2 Aug. 1853; m. 1 
June 1884, Mary A. Cameron of New Glasgow, N. S., dau. of 
Hugh and Catherine (Frasier). 

Alice Sarah b. in N. Falmouth 28 Feb. 1857; m. 19 May 

1878 David M. Faunce of Mattapoisett, Mass. 

William Francis b. in New Bedford 18 Jan. 1859; m. 21 Oct. 
1886, Lydia L. Snow of Mattapoisett, dau. of James M. and 
Louisa. He is a sea-captain and resides in Berkeley, Cal. 



178 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

176 a 
Joshua Macomber, or McComber (George 6 , Gideoir', Mat- 
thew 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Cambridge, 
Duchess Co., N. Y., in 1793, married, 1821, Hannah, dam. of 
Oliver and (Gray) Slack. He lived in Rutland, Jeffer- 
son Co., N. Y., and in Watertown, where he died 9 March 1880. 
His wife died 9 Jan. 1880, aged 76 yrs. Ten children, Matthew, 
George, William, Pamelia, Thankful, George again, James, Mary, 
Joel, and an infant. The only ones who reached maturity 
and married were : 

Thankful m. Justice Burlingham; d. 1894. Ch., Eliza m. 
Robert Knowles, Alice m. Lyman Brown, Kate m. Ed Taft, Har- 
riet m. Sawdy, and Jennie m. Smith. 

Joel b. 16 Nov. 1826; m. 8 Oct. 1856, Mary Comstock Lyon, 
born in Sherburne, N. Y., 20 Feb. 1828, and d. in Brooklyn, N. 
Y., 5 May 1897. He was a shoe manufacturer in N. Y. city. 
One dau., Carrie Delia McComber, b. 17 June 1857, who is a lit- 
erary person and lives at in St. John Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George b. 9 March 1832 ; m. 7 Oct. 1857, Helen M. Bush b. 
25 Oct. 1835. He d. 9 Jan. 1901. Ch., Hattie E. b. 10 July 1858, 
m. 3 June 1879, Samuel Felt of Watertown, N. Y. ; Helen A. b. 
29 March 1862, d. 1 Jan. 1865; George Bush MacComber (name 
so changed by order of Court) b. 25 Nov. 1873, m. 26 Sept. 1901, 
Jennie Neliis. He is a lawyer in Watertown, N. Y. 

James, went west about 1866 and was never heard from. 

Mary b. ; m. (1) Wilbur Rudd, (2) Franklin B. 

Feather, Wayne, Neb. 

177 

Richard Macomber (Levi , Abiel 5 , William 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in W'estport, Mass., 1816, married, 20 Feb. 
1835, Hannah Briggs, born 1816. He died in Westport 23 April 
1893, aged 'jy yrs. Children: 

Amanda M. b. June 1837; m. 23 April 1857, John S. Tripp, 
(2) John Dolman. 

Isaac N. b. abt. 1840; m. 20 Mch. 1877, Diadama C. Davis,, 
dau. of Peter and Hannah; d. 21 July 1900, aged 41 yrs. 11 mos. 
Ch., Leland R. b. 19 Dec. 1881, who m. 13 Feb. 1902, Susie, dau. 
of Restcome and Emily (Chace) Healy of Westport, and has.; 
dau. Madeline Diadama b. 3 July 1903. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY iyn 

Harriet N. b. 1842; m. Jeremiah Manchester. 

Lucy C. 10 Oct. 1844; m. 5 Jan. 1868, Barnabas B. Sanford. 

Barbara Elizabeth b. 1 Feb. 1847; m. Charles G. True! 

Abby T. b. 19 Aug. 1849; d. 21 Dec. i860. 

Susan M. b. 18 Sept. 1852; m. 2 May 1873; William 11. Butts. 

Andrew R. b. 19 Dec. 1856; d. 15 Dec. i860. 

Nellie b. 8 Oct. 1859; m. Capt. Robert Chace. 

Betsey J. b. 1861 ; m. 13 Nov. 1906, Gordon R. Tripp. 

178 
Silas Macomber (Wesson , John 5 , William 4 , William''. Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), bom at Grand Isle, Vt, 12 Jan. 1785, married, 
2 Aug. 1 8 14, Bethiah Center. He died 28 Aug. 1872. She, 
born 17 April 1792, died 7 Oct. 1844. Children born at Grand 
Isle: 

249. Wesson b. 7 May 1815; m. Mary Ann Flint. 
Havilah b. 4 Dec. 1817; m. 27 Sept. 1835, Rowland 1'. 

Conery; d. 8 Oct. 1902. 

Sabrah b. 9 Jan. 1820; m. Benjamin Bell. 

Caroline b. 23 July 1821 ; m. Nelson Robinson, (2) 
James Richardson. Lives at 410 E. North St., Bloom- 
ington, 111. 

Alson b. 28 May 1823; m. Eliza Donaldson; d. 24 Mch. 
1892. Two daus., Juliette m. Harmon Macomber of 
Westford, Vt., and Sarah m. James Donovan. She is- 
a widow, living with her aunt Caroline. 

250. Silas b. 26 July 1827; m. Lucy Donaldson. 
Lorenzo b. 13 April 1830; m. Eliza Sutherland; d. 4 June 

1859. Three daus., Leonora m. Alson Landon, S. 

Hero, Vt. ; Julia, unm. ; and Addie m. George Debec, 

Grand Isle, Vt. 
Louisa S., twin to Lorenzo; m. George E. Delano, 1 Sept. 

1859; d. 11 Dec. 1898. 
Daughter b. 8 Jan. 1835 ; d. 25 Jan. 1835. 

179 

Jonathan Macomber (Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born at Grand Isle, Vt., 6 Mch. 1793, mar- 
ried - Keese. He died 5 May 1866. 

John. 



l8o MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Pamelia ; m. Thew of Peru, N. Y. 

Margaret. 

Willets. 

Hannah. 

Matilda. 

William. 

Richard. 

i 80 

Joseph Macomber (Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle, Vt., 3 March 1795, married 
(1) 3 Sept. 181 7, Elizabeth, dau. of Refine Weekes. She was 
born 15 June 1797 and died 23 Dec. 1836. He married (2), 9 
June 1852, Lydia, dau. of Thomas and Anna (Knowles) Anthony 
of N. Kingston, N. Y., born 17 Jan. 1804. She died 1 March 
1895. He was a farmer anl lived at Grand Isle, Vt., and Fram- 
ington, N. Y. He died 14 June 1874. Children: 

Mary b. 20 April 1818; d. 2 May 1818. 

Margaret b. 20 April 1818; d. 7 May 1818. 

Margaret b. 29 June 1820; m. Lorenzo Hathaway. 

251. Joseph E. b. 29 April 1822; m. Finis G. M. Borden. 
Catherine b. 1 Jan. 1825, m. 22 Sept. 1846, Milo Ray- 
mond; d. 7 Apr. 1864. 

Mary E. b. 16 Aug. 1827; m. Willard Bowerman. 

252. Richard R. b. 18 Jan. 1832; m. Sarah J. Deane. 

253. William P. b. 18 Jan. 1832; m Esther Deane. 

181 

Benjamin Macomber (Wesson 3 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle, Vt., 24 Jan. 1806, mar- 
ried Hannah, dau. of Samuel and Miriam (Worth) Meeker of 
Waybridge, Vt., and lived on the homestead at Grand Isle. He 
died 22 April 1893. She died 19 April 1885. 

Daniel b. 14 Sept. 1833; m. Elizabeth Merrill. 5 or 6 ch. 
Lived in Texas. 

Huldah b. 11 March 1835; died young. 

Lindley M. b. 20 Aug. 1836, m. Sept. 1864, Elizabeth Dakin. 
JR.es., Ferrisburgh, Vt. No ch. 

Mahlon D. b. 27 Feb. 1838. Unm. 

Rhoda b. 24 Nov. 1839 ; died young. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 1X1 

Joseph T. b. 10 June 1841. Unm. 

Samuel M. b. 24 March 1846; m. Clarissa Pearl of Grand 
Isle, Vt., dau. of Alexander S. and Rebecca Aim McCobb 
(Delano) Pearl, b. 11 Aug. 1848. Has one dau. Grace P., who 
m. Hal Bronaughl. Res., Rutland, Vt. 

Thomas C. b. 31 May 1847, m - Alice M. Wool of Malone, N. 
Y. Graduated at Dartmouth College in 1874. Teacher. Died 
at Lancaster, N. H., 27 July 1881. Two ch., Benjamin and 
Clara. 

Candace W. b. 2.J Sept. 1850. Unm. Res., Grand Isle, Vt. 

182 

Wesson Macomber (Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle, Vt., 5 Aug. 1809, mar- 
ried Charlotte Graves. He died 24 April 18 — . Children : 

Martha. 

Helen. 

Henry. 

Harmon m. and had ch., Ida, Wesson, Wini- 
fred and William. 

Myron J. m. Howard. Ch., Eva and Samuel. 

Angeline. 

Ephraim m. and had ch., Betsey, Frederick and 

Josie. 

183 

Wesson Macomber (John 6 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Chesterfield, N. Y-, 1798, married (1) 
Eunice Boynton, dau. of Ephraim, born 1800. (2) Lucy Boyn- 
ton. He was a farmer and lived in Jay, N. Y. 
254. Albert W. b. 25 Feb. 1826; m. Sarah D. Beardsley, (2) 
Hattie Ferris. 
Hannah b. 1820; m. Orrin Sutherland. 
Phebe B. b. 1822; m. Tristram Searle. 
Caroline b. June 1824; m. Henry Brand. 
Lucian B. b. May 1829; m. Jane Hoag. Ch., Harvey 
W., Frank, Lydia, who m. Frank Wardner, and 
Charles. 
Jennie b. June 183 1 ; m. John Folsom. 



182 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

184 

Abraham Macomber (Isaac 6 , Wesson 5 , William 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 2 Sept. 1805, mar- 
ried, 25 Sept. 1833, Mary, dau. of John and Eunice ( ) Gil- 
ford, all of Westport. She was born 16 Dec. 1812. He died 8 
Dec. 1 89 1, aged 86 yrs. 3 mos. 

Susan Brown b. 21 April 1835; m. Elbridge Chase, 2 Oct. 

1853- 
John Gifford b. 8 June 1839. Unm. 

Isaac Williams b. 1 Jan. 1842; d. 20 Aug. 1862. 

Mary Ellen b. 15 July 1847; m - l 4 May 1869 Wm. Almy. 

185 

James Scott Macomber (Gilbert , Elijah 3 , Samuel 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Pawtucket, R. I., 22 Aug. 1837, 
married (1) 12 May 1853, Elizabeth Northrup Peck, dau. of Wil- 
liam and Sarah T. (Hatch) Peck of Warren, R. I., born 17 Oct. 
1838. Divorced. He married (2), at Attleborough, Mass., 14 
Nov. 1865, Mrs. Lucy B. Macomber, widow of John Macomber 
and dau. of James and Helen Barnett. He was a jeweler in 
Providence, R. I. He died in Norwood, R. I., 18 Nov. 1893. 
His widow died about 1895. Two children by first marriage. 

Herbert Fabian b. 21 Feb. 1859; d. 24 March 1869. 

William Irving b. 20 Nov. 1857; m. (1) 21 April 1881, Car- 
rie Amanda, dau. of Joseph Wanton and Abbie (Gardner) Gard- 
ner, b. 26 Meh. 1861. She d. 1 Jan. 1894. He m. (2) 15 Oct. 
1894, Nellie Miller, dau. of Nehemiah A. and Mary (Bartholo- 
mew) Wood, b. 5 April 1870. He is a manufacturer of machin- 
ery in Providence, R. I. Three children by first marriage and 
one by second. Sarah Abbie b. 17 April 1882; Herbertine Irving 
b. 28 Aug. 1884; Roxa Isabel b. 12 July 1891 ; William Wood b. 
6 March 1896. 

186 
Gilbert Macomber (Gilbert 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 24 July 1792, 
married Peace Davis. Intentions recorded 21 March 1828. He 
died in Westport, 10 Sept. 1874. She died 25 Feb. 1S50, aged 
50 yrs. Children : 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I S3 

Isaac W. b. 1829. Went west and never heard from. 

255. Andrew S. b. 30 March 1830; in. Lydia !•'.. Tripp. 
Mary S. b. 29 April 1831 ; d. 9 Oct. 1904. Unm. 
Rebecca b. 1832; m. 17 Oct. 1866, Robert S. Read. 

256. Darius R. b. 29 April 1834; m. Dorcas M. Dyer. 
Leonard W. b. 25 Aug. 1835; d. 12 Nov. 1876. Unm. 
James E. b. 1833; m. April 1871, Mary J. Read, dan. of 

Wilbur and Henrietta of Fall River, Mass. 

257. Gilbert G. b. 28 April 1837; m. Deborah H. Wood. 
David W. b. 1838. Went to California. 

187 

Abner Macomber (Roger 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), married Mary A. Otis. He died in 1847; 
she in 1894. 

Eliza Ann m. Saxton. 

Otis, died in infancy. 

Lucinda, died in infancy. 

Alonzo, died in infancy. 

Jane L. m. Curtis, Geneva, Kansas. 

John, died in infancy. 

188 

Henry Macomber (Roger 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 8 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), married Eliza A. Kennedy. He died 1 
October 1863. She died in 1894. Nine children. Lived in 
Genesee Co., N. Y. 

Esther m. Van Keunen, Lakeview, Mich. 

Ann E. m. Briggs; d. 3 Sept. 1873. 

Charles Henry b. 1 July 1838 in Fulton Co., N. Y, served 
three years in the Civil War in 1st Mich. Regt. m. 1 May 1867, 
Sarah L. Satterlee. Lives in Plainwell, Mich. 4 dans., two d. 
y. Jennie E. b. 26 Dec. 1871 ; m. 1902 Dr. E. R Cook and In 
in Minneapolis; Lottie S b. 3 Nov. 1876, m. 1899, Prof. Wm. C. 
Norcross and lives in Kalamazoo, Mich., having ch., Wm. C. b. 
21 July 1 90 1, and Luella b. 29 Oct. 1902. 

Robert E. died 29 July 1845. Unm. 

Andrew J. died 5 March 1866. Unm. Soldier in the Civil 
War. 



184 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Vmanda M. m. Ingraham; d. 25 Sept. 1890. 

\lfred E , soldier in the Civil War. 

Mary J. m. Hallock ; d. in 1880. 

Harriet m. Wilson, Lakeview, Mich. 

189 
Charles Macomber (Roger 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 . William 1 ), married Mary A. Burt. He died in 1875; 
she in 1802. Children as follows: 

Mrs. Emily T. Mather, 399 Quarry St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
Mrs. Caroline E. Roach, 669 Wealthy Ave., Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

Mrs. Electa C. Wheeler, 669 Wealthy Ave., Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 

Mrs. Mapia Smith, Three Rivers, Mich. 

Mrs. Ella F. Weller, 323 Galena St., Butte, Montana. 

Esther Tennette Wheeler, 427 Russell Street, 
x ' ' Lafayette, Ind. 

erome Macomber, died in 1849. Unm. 

.' Macomber, died 3 July 1889. Ch., Grace d. 3 Nov. 
?oi, Charles and Edwin C, Battle Creek, Mich. 
M ■ Mary Ann Sabin, d. 6 April 1896. 

190 

• vi Macomber (Roger 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 

" li , ■•-, William 1 ), born in Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y., 

lent 1797, lived for a while at Perry, N. Y., but settled in 

1, '■■'. Y., in 1831, where he died in 1861. He was a 

in the Baptist Church and a prosperous farmer. He mar- 

) 23 Vpril 1818, Harriet, dan. of Asa and Sally Cutler, 

h i- born in Guilford, Vt., 26 Aug. 1801, (2) 27 March 

9 Mantta Mary Roe, nee Pratt, widow of Rev. George N. 

She died 9 Feb. 1898. 

3-eor e William b. at Perry, N. Y. 2 July 1820; m. 

Nancy Crampton. 
Sarah \nn b. at Perry, N. Y., 9 Jan. 1823; m. Parley 
Y. Ingalsbe; d. 22 Dec. 1891. 
"iiiarine Harriet b. at Perry, N. Y., 12 Sept. 1826; 

Strickland; d. abt. 1858. One child, died 

young. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 8c 

Amanda Melvina b. at Perry, N. Y., 15 Jan. 1828; m. 

p Lorin Reed, (2) Julius Reed. Living at Oakfield 
N. Y. 

Emma Eliza b. at Perry, N. Y., 10 Aug. 1830; d. 2 
April 1848. 

John Leonard b. at Alabama, N. Y., 29 Jan. 1833; m - 18 
Dec. 1861, Helen G. Willis, dau. of Sylvester and Syl- 
via (Beecher) b. 8 May 1843. He d. 27 Aug. 1903 
at Oakfield, N. Y., where he was a farmer, trustee 
of Cary Collegiate Institute and vestryman in St. 
Michael's Episcopal Church. Had one dau. Alice 
Emma, who m. Fred Bryant Parker and 1. at Elba, N. 
Y. They have a dau. Helen Lydia Parker. 

Levant Judson b. at Alabama, N. Y., 21 May 1835; m. 
Emma March; d. Feb. 1901. 2 ch., Harriet E. and L. 
Marsh. Res., Greenville, Mich. 
259. Francis Allen b. at Alabama, N. Y., 5 April 1837; m. 
Mary E. Selden, (2) Mary Butts. 

Hannah Lovina b. at Alabama, N. Y., 23 April 1843 > d. 
23 Vug. 1843. 
Children by second marriage: 

\jn, died in infancy. 

William b. in Alabama, N. Y., 4 Nov. 1857; m. 1887, 
Yugusta S. Woodruff of Hamilton, N. Y. He is 
a lawyer at Buffalo, N. Y. 

191 

Allen Macomber (Roger 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 8 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Kinderhook, N. Y., 17 March 1807, 
married, 1833, Esther Howe of Perry, N. Y. He cleared a farm 
in Perry and built a log house, and lived on that farm till his 
death, 11 Feb. 1887. His wife, born in Springwater, N. Y., 21 
March 1816, died in Perry 9 July 1907. Children: 

Charlotte Marion b. 17 Jan. 1834; m. 6 March 1856, Abishai 
Goodale Bacon; d. 23 April 1908 in Perry. Ch., Adelaide M. b. 
18 Jan. 1857, and Margaret Ether b. 10 Jan. 1874, who 111. 1 Jan. 
1896 and d. June 1902. 



I 86 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sarah Jane b. 13 Jan. 1837; m. 6 Oct. 1853, William M. Hart 
of Perry, farmer and grocer, b. 21 June 1835. He d. 11 July 
1890. No ch. 

William Henry Harrison b. 24 Aug. 1839; m. (1) 1 Oct. 
1872, Mary E. Wood of Covington, who was b. 2 Nov. 1847 an d 
d. 25 Dec. 1883, (2) 1895, Stella D. Root. He was a farmer in 
Castile, N. Y. He d. in Perry, N. Y., 26 Nov. 1902. Ch., Allen 
b. 22 Dec. 1883 and d. 23 July 1908, unm. ; Harriet Esther b. 10 
Feb. 1886, m. Sept. 1905; John b. 27 April 1884; and Mary Eliz- 
abeth b. 28 Sept. 1890. 

Mary Ophelia b. 10 Dec. 1841 ; m. 3 March 1869, Herbert 
Cornish ; d. s. p. 19 Aug. 1892. 

Lewis Allen b. 14 March 1844; m. (1) at Perry, 16 Dec. 
1869, Miss Fanny Sarah Smith, dau. of Mark Driscoll and Caro- 
line Smith, b. 27 Sept. 1845, an d d. 18 Jan. 1891, (2) 23 Nov. 
1892. Mrs. Florence Emma (Hutchinson) Sharpesteen of Castile, 
N. Y. He is a farmer, dealer in live stock, wool and produce, 
President of Citizens' Bank of Perry, and President of Silver 
Lake Agricultural and Mechanical Association. Ch., by first 
marriage, Mark Alleu b. 20 May 1871, m. 14 Sept. 1893, Helen 
A., dau. of Adelbert Heath of Perry, b. 29 May 1872. He is a 
grocer at Perry and has ch., Dean Stanley b. 29 May 1898, and 
Lewis Heath b. 18 June 1905. The second son of Lewis A. 
Macomber is George Stanley, b. 28 May 1877 at Perry. He 
graduated at Cornell University and is Assistant Professor of 
Electrical Engineering in Sibley College, Cornell University. He 
m. 17 June 1903 Miss Mabel Elizabeth Tucker, b. at Nunda, N. 
Y., 23 Dec. 1876, dau. of Rev. James D. Tucker of West Haven, 
Conn. He is a member of the American Institute of Electrical 
Engineering, of the Am. Soc. for Advancement of Sci. and of 
Am. Soc. for Adv. of Eng. Education. He has two ch., James 
Lewis b. 12 July 1905, at Rochester, N. Y., and Loren Dudley 
b. 4 May 1908 at Ithaca, N. Y. The only dau. of Lewis A. 
Macomber is Bessie Lou b. 7 Sept. 1882. 

Harriet Ann b. 2 April 1847. Unm. Perry, N. Y. 

192 
Israel Macomber (William 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 24 March 1810, 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY I 87 

married in Westport, 7 May 1830, Mary E., dau. of Herculea and 
Abby (Tripp) Manchester. He died in Westport 2 Jan. 189 1. 
She died 13 Feb. 1893, a S" e d 77-1-12. Children: 

William P. b. 23 Aug. 1837; m. 19 Nov. 1866, Abby \V., dau. 
of Godfrey and Thirza (Howland) Cornell, who d. 21 Jan. 1878, 
aged 39-1 1-13, (2) 12 Feb. 1879, Nellie A., dau. of Ed S. Tucker. 
Ch., Thirza b. 31 Aug. 1868; Mary E. b. 31 July 1867, m. 24 Oct. 
1893 Martin V. Ruland ; and Edward. 

Isaac b. 9 Nov. 1839; m. 24 Jan. 1867 Sarah H., dau. of God- 
frey and Thirza (Howland) Cornell, b. 28 Feb. 1840. He d. 15 
May 1 901. Ch., Bertha C. b. 18 Aug. 1868, m. 3 Jan. 1893, 
Harry L. Burns of New Bedford and has dau. Gladys M. Burns 
b. 14 April 1894; and Nason R. b. 20 March 1871, m. 27 Dec. 
1900, Kate S. dau. of William B. and Mary F. (Lemunyon) Cor- 
nell, b. 8 Oct. 1873. They have dau. Gertrude Cornell b. 8 April 
1903. 

Adin Newton b. 12 Aug. 1845. Unm. 

Elihu G. b. 20 Dec. 1846. Unm. 

193 

John Macomber (Simeon 8 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 16 Nov. 1808, 
married, 19 May 1839, Mary Hazzard, dau. of Oliver P. and Ann 
T. She died 28 April 1869, aged 47 yrs. 11 mos. He died in 
New Bedford, Mass., 1 May 1891. Two children: 

Abbie A. b. 1843; m - *5 Dec - l86l > Francis W - Hammond; d. 
July 1894. 

Peleg b. 28 July 1846; m. (1) 4 Oct. 1869, Mary French of 
New Bedford, dau. of Rodney and Rowena, and had a son, Harry 
I., who is married and has two children. Peleg m. (2) 31 Dec. 
1892, Mrs. Sabra E. Barnes, b. 20 Oct. 1848. He d. 17 April 

1893. 

194 

Otis Macomber (Simeon 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 16 Feb. 1813, married 
Priscilla B., dau. of Thomas and Deborah (Pierce) Sanford of 
Fall River, 28 April 1844, or 1845. He died 27 Sept. 1888. Lived 
in Westport, on the original Macomber farm. She died 27 Oct. 
1907, aged 86-5-20. 



I 88 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Frank E. b. 28 Jan. 1849; d. 25 April 1853. 

Charles F. b. 23 April 1852; m. 19 Dec. 1878, Charlotte M., 
clau. of Abraham and Ellen C. Dyer, Westport. No children. 

Frank G. b. 9 June 1854; m. 28 Oct. 1895, Mary L., dau. of 
Robert and Melvina (Ramsdell) Wood of Westport. One son, 
Otis, b. 30 Dec. 1896. Lives at Westport Point, Mass. 

Clara A. b. 27 Dec. 1856. Unm. 

195 

Thurston Macomber (Simeon 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 18 Jan. 
181 5, married in Providence, R. I., 1 Jan. 1855, Betsey Maria 
Billings of Sharon, Mass. He died 7 March 1879, m Fairhaven, 
Mass. Widow lives in Stoughton, Mass. 

Son, b. 19 Sept. 1856; prob. died young. 

Fred C. b. 19 June 1858; m. 7 Dec. 1882, Ada F. Sears, dau. of 
Elisha H. and Mary C, age 22. He d. at Fairhaven 22 July 1889, 
leaving several children. 

William, died 22 July 1891, aged 25-6- at Stoughton, Mass. 

Mae b. 22 June 1869 (?). Teacher, unm. Stoughton, Mass. 

196 

Alexander Macomber (Simeon 6 , William 5 , Timothy 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 13 Feb. 
1 82 1, married, 26 April 1848, Nancy L. King, dau. of Godfrey 

and Rhoda (Sanford). He died in New Bedford 27 March 1899. 
Widow died in Westport 18 Oct. 1900, aged 74-0-25. 

William F. b. May 1850; m. 22 Oct. 1876, Phebe A., dau. of 
Benj. and Lucy Smith, in Dartmouth. Ch., Esther Louise b. 14 
Oct. 1877, m. 4 Feb. 1897, Edward B. Kirby; Arthur Alexander 
b. 26 Tune 1884, d. 22 Aug. 1900; George b. 24 Sept. 1S79, and 
Thurston R. 

Simeon E. b. 1868 ; d. 1 June 1874. 

Leonard A. b. ; m. 8 Aug. 1886, Jane E. Reed, dau. of 

Lemuel and Frances ; 1. in N. Dartmouth. Two sons and two 
daus., of whom are Maud B. b. 1 Mch. 1889, and Simeon E. b. 
22 Nov. 1894. 

Fannie G. b. 1850; m. 17 Nov. 1875, Albert H. Wordell of 
New Bedford. Five ch. survive her. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY | , 

197 

Charles Henry Macomber (Ephraim 6 , Timothy' 1 , Timothy 4 , 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 9 Dec. 1823, married, Sept. 
1850, Rebecca W. Russell. He died 29 Sept. 1901 in VV< 
port, Mass. 

Hannah Maria b. 1 June 1851, in Dartmouth; m. 12 Jan. 
1871, Jonathan Davis. Lives in Swansea, Mass. Several ch. 

Jane T. b. 1852, m. 17 Oct. 1905, Edward L. Goodwin. 

Charles Ephraim b. Sept. 1854. Unm. Lives in Oregon. 

Son b. 1 March 1857; d. 8 March 1857. 

Lucy S. b. 1858. Unm. Lives in Westport. 

Eliza G. b. 3 April i860; m. 14 Sept. 1895 Walter A. Jenney 
of New Bedford. No ch. 

Clara B. b. 1865 ; m. 27 Nov. 1900, William V. Read of Fall 
River. 

Daughter b. 29 Oct. 1867; died in infancy. 

Vellator E. b. 1868; m. 24 June 1899, Mary E., dau. of 
George W. and Lydia A. (Chase) Perry. Lives in Fall River. 
No ch. 

198 

Alexander P. S. Macomber (Ephraim 6 , Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 29 
May 1830, married 13 Nov. 1859, Lucy S. D. Perry, dau. of John 
and Mahala, of Fairhaven, Mass., born about 1835. He died 13 
July 1898, aged 68-1-13. 

Clara Louise b. at Acushnet 2 Aug. i860. 

Nellie E. d. at Boston 5 May 1892, aged 23-1 1-3? 

Annie Amelia b. 13 June 1867; m. 31 March 1887, Charles 
W. Borden at Fall River, Mass. 

William Elmer, twin to Annie A. m. 31 Dec. 1889, Mrs. Isa- 
bella (Tibbetts) . He d. at Fall River 5 May 1892, aged 

24-10-20. 

Walter P. b. 18 March 1873; m. 13 Feb. 1896, Isabel, dau. of 
Edward M. and Martha (Hood) Wheeler, b. at Pittsburg, Pa., 
abt. 1870. 

John P. b. abt. 1865; m. 23 Nov. 1897, Nellie F., dau. of 
Michael and Hannah (Hanley) Lynch. 



190 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

199 

David Miller Macomber (John 6 , Timothy 5 , Timothy*, Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Wilton, Me., 29 May 1814, 
married, 17 Feb. 1846, Hannah G., dau. of Thomas and Hannah 
(Scales) Allen.He died 20 Feb. 1886 at East Wilton, Me. She 
died at East Wilton 14 Dec. 1901, aged 81-8-14. 

Abbie Anna b. 1 March 1848; living at East Wilton, Me. 

Mary Elizabeth b. 8 Feb. 1851 ; m. 21 May 1874, Thomas H. 
Hunt of Rochester, N. H. Ch., Helen W. Hunt b. 19 Oct. 1875; 
Phillips M. Hunt b. 20 Nov. 1876, m. 4 March 1901, Mabel 
Hackett at Fort Worth, Texas. 

Susan Elzeda b. 20 June 1853 ; m. 1 Jan. 1875, George W. 
Whitley. Ch., Clarence W. Whitley b. 1 Mch. 1876, d. Aug. 
1876; and Geo. W. Whitley b. 13 Oct. 1881. 

200 

James Nelson Macomber (John 6 , Timothy 5 , Timothy 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Wilton, Me., 8 Feb. 1821, 
married, 17 Aug. 1846, Mary L. Matthews, dau. of Charles and 
Ruth, at South Dartmouth, Mass. He lived at South Dartmouth, 
Mass. Died, 1908. 

Clarence Nelson b. 23 July 1847; d. 22 April 1875. 

Ruth Ellen b. 16 July 1849; d. 6 Nov. 1873. 

Marietta Freeman b. 9 Feb. 185 1. Unm. 

Ida Melissa b. abt. 1856; m. Henry T. Ellis, 13 Sept. 1879. 
Fairhaven. 

Annie b. , m. Ezra Wilde, N. Bedford. 

201 

Benjamin Macomber (Job 6 , Benjamin 5 , Benjamin*, Thomas 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 9 May 1790, mar- 
ried Ruth . A widow, Ruth Macomber died in New 

Bedford, Mass., 19 Aug. 1849. Two children are known. There 
may have been others. 

Benjamin Frank b. at Tiverton, 1830; m. 8 Jan. 1857, Sarah 
A., dau. of Philip and Celia (Lake) Gray, and had ch., Andrew 
F. d. 15 Jan. 1898, aged 39-7-21. James Alexander b. abt. i860, 
m. 16 Dec. 1885, Mabel, dau. of Darius D. and Dorcas (Dyer) 
Macomber and had ch., Olive, who d. 22 Aug. 1898, aged 10 mos. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY Ir) , 

and 3 days, and Lester D. who d. 7 Aug. 1890, aged 6 mos 17 
days; Sarah Anne b. abt. 1868, m. 28 Dec. 1884, Davis Franklin 
Martin; and Hattie b. abt. 1862, m. 8 July 1883, Frank S. Sylvia. 

Allen G. b. abt. 1820; m. 3 Jan. 1845, in New Bedford, Lucy 
M. Taylor, dau. of John and Mary. She m. (2) 5 Mch. 18 
Francis Maxwell. One child by first marriage is known, Chai 
Hussey Macomber b. in New Bedford abt. 1846. He m. 14 April 
1870, Ellen Louise Bullard, dau. of Amasa and Margaret S. He 
d. at Fairhaven, Mass., 20 March 1895, aged 48-10-14. He had 
ch., Louise T. b. 27 May 1871 ; Emma L. d. 22 March 1893, aged 
7-5-7; and probably Lewis T., who m. 5 Sept. 1889, Nancy A. 
Lee, dau. of Bradford and Elizabeth. They had ch., Frederick 
Henry, Albert A., and Jennie, all of whom died at Dighton, Mass., 
when quite young. 

Another child may have been Ruth of Tiverton ; pub. to Perry 
Davis, 8 Oct. 1834, 

202 

Christopher Macomber (Job 6 , Benjamin 5 , Benjamin 4 , 
Thomas 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 11 Oct. 

1792, married Eliphal . He died in New Bedford, Mass., 

about 1843. She was born in 1800 and died 16 June 1866. 
Children so far as known : 

Stephen m. 1 July 1838, Rachel Andrews of Dartmouth, dau. 
of Stephen and Sarah. He d. s. p. abt. 1855. Was a mariner 
and 1. in New Bedford. She d. 10 June 1872, aged 56 yrs. 

Job b. 1818; m. Phebe Grinnell; d. abt. 1862. She d. in New 
Bedford 20 Aug. 1898, aged 70 yrs. 1 mo. They had the follow- 
ing children, named in the will of Eliphal Macomber, Catherine 
b. 1839, m. 25 Jan. 1857, Thomas H. Weaver; Sarah T. b. 2 Jan. 
1846, d. 13 April 1862; Job A., b. 1844, m. perhaps, 21 May 1869, 
in Providence, R. I., Lydia A. Aldrich. She m. (2) in New 
Bedford, 10 Dec. 1882, Sydney Smith. She was b. at Central 
Falls, R. I., dau. of David and Rhoda Aldrich. A dau. by her 
first marriage, Gertrude E., b. in Pawtucket, R. I., abt. 1870, m. 
12 Sept. 1894, Frederick A. Mason, in New Bedford. 

Josephine b. 1842, as shown by census of 1850. 

203 
Seabury Macomber (Job 8 , Benjamin 5 , Benjamin 4 , Thomas 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 16 April 1799, mar- 
ried (1)9 March 1829, at Moosup, Ct., Lydia Miller Collins, dau. 



192 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

of James and Lois (Miller) Collins, who was born 16 May 1807, 
at Moosup, Ct., and died at Waltham, 111., 20 Jan. 1870. He died 
at Sabin, Minn., 17 Oct. 1899, and was buried there. He married 
(2) Catherine Lawton. Two children by first marriage, born in 
Moosup, Ct. ; five by second. 

Children by first marriage : 

Mary Ann Elizabeth b. 9 Jan. 1821 ; m. Aug. 1843, William 
Almy; d. at Sabin, Minn. 

James Peabody b. 19 Nov. 1823; d. 16 July 1824. 

Children by second marriage : 

Susan Layton b. 13 Dec. 1829; m. 4 Jan. 1847, Jonathan 
Mattuson ; lived at Adrian, Mich. 

Edward Almy b. 12 Oct. 1831 ; m. 4 July 1852, Lizzie Robb, 
(2) 8 Nov. 1866, at Oxford, Mass., Ellen A. Sibley, age 19, dau. 
of Ira and Sophronia (Shumway) Sibley. He is a shoemaker 
and lives in Worcester, Mass. (1905). 

William Seabury b. 19 Sept. 1833 ; m. 18 Oct. 1857, at 
Ottawa, 111., Mary Ann Pringle ; d. 3 April 1889, at Walthem, 111. 

Samuel Miller b. 7 March 1835 > m - 2 5 Nov. 1854, Sarah Sis- 
sons. Lives at Pearl St., East Somerville, Mass. 

Catharine Eleanor b. 10 Feb. 1847; m - 2 & Dec. 1865, John 
F. Hill at Ottawa, 111. Lives at Waltham, 111. 

204 

Charles Macomber (Ephraim 6 , Ephraim 5 , Benjamin 4 , 
Thomas 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 10 Feb. 
1804, married Desire, dau. of Lewis and Amy (Bennett) Grin- 
nell. He died in Fall River, 22 June 1898, aged 92-4-12. She 
was born about 1804 and died 16 April 1895, aged 87. 

George B. b. about 1830; m. 21 Dec. 1855, Betsey C. Taber, 
dau. of Warren and Nancy, b. in Dartmouth about 1839. She 
d. at Fairhaven, Mass., 1 June 1872, aged 33 yrs. 1 mo. Ch., 
Charles W. b. 11 April 1857; d. abt. 1879. Unm. Mina F. b. 4 
Oct. 1859. Georgiana m. Frank McGee ( ?) Myra F. b. about 
1862 ; m. Geo. W. Chase, 22 June 1879. 

Sarah B. m. Benjamin Waite, 26 Aug. 185 1. 

Amanda b. ; m. James Mahern. 

Amy C. b. about 1841 ; m. Moses G. Gray, 1 Jan. 1867, at 
Boston. 



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[ 93 



Diana b. 1840; m. Stephen P. Kirby, 1 Jan. 1871, of Westport. 
-d. 2 Feb. 1908. 

Benjamin. Unm. Merchant in East Tiverton, R. I. 
Ellen M. b. about 1851 ; m. Charles D. Gifford, 9 June 1881. 

205 

Isaac Macomber (Ephraim 6 , Ephraim 5 , Benjamin', Thom 

William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., . 

Married Mary M. Simmons, dan. of Thomas and Polly, born in 
Jamestown, R. I. She died 26 Oct. 1889, aged 77-8-4, a widow. 
Children, so far as known. 

Thomas H. b. abt. 1837; m. 9 Dec. i860, Mary A. Manches- 
ter, dau. of Benjamin and Sarah, of Tiverton, age 18. He m. 
(2) 12 Feb. 1877, Abbie S. Costino, dau. of Horace and Betsey, 
of Tiverton, age 26. Pie was a mariner. 

Isaac b. abt. 1845 '■> m - 4 Nov. 1865, Mary J., dau. of Joseph P. 
and Eliza A. (Gould) Barker, age 16. 

Leander S. b. abt. 1847; m - I2 Aug. 1878, Elizabeth Emery, 
dau. of Joseph and Mary C, of Fall River, age 27. He was then 
•of Adamsville, Mass. 

Patience G. m. Walter S. Gray, 4 Dec. 1864. 

Clara S. rn. John S. Huddy, 8 Aug. 1867. 

Mary b. ; m. Francis Tallman. Living at Stone bridge, 

Tiverton, R. I. 

Philip? 

206 

Elijah G. Macomber (Perry 6 , Zebedee 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 24 Aug. 1792, mar- 
ried, 23 March 1820, Phebe, dau. of Asa and Rhoby (Russell) 
I-Iowland. He died 20 Dec. 1868. His wife was born 29 April 
1801, and died 30 Dec. 1841. 

Elizabeth H. b. 30 April 1821 ; m. 18 Aug. 1841, Stephen 
Shove. One child, Phebe Howland Shove, b. 14 Oct. 1842, m. 
John Emmons and d. 24 April 1887. 

Frederic William b. 10 Dec. 1823; m. 12 Sept. 1854, Mary 
White Poor of Ipswich, Mass. ; d. 24 April 1886. Ch., Walter 
Frederic b. 25 June 1855, m. 18 Oct. 1879, Minnie B. Vance; 
Mary Lizzie b. 21 Aug. 1861, artist in Boston; and Jessie \\ . b. 
15 Aug. 1865, d. 5 March 1878. 



194 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

207 

Perry R. Macomber (Perry 6 , Zebedee 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , Wililam 1 ), born in Dartmouth, Mass., 26 June 1799, mar- 
ried (1) 1 May 1821, Amy Cornell, who died at Cambridge,. 
Mass., 23 July 1856, born 4 Aug. 1800, dau. of John and Mary 
(Potter) ; (2) 19 Sept. 1858, Marianne B., dau. of Robert and 
Lydia (Wood) Peverly, born 1 March 1838, at Portsmouth, N. 
H. He died 4 July 1873. She died at Jamaica Plain, 18 Aug. 
1906. 

Sarah b. 20 Feb. 1822; m. 29 Nov. 1851, William Pul- 
sifer of Ipswich, Mass.; d. 2J Aug. 1861. 
260. John C. b. 4 April 1824; m. 23 Nov. 1853 Eliza A., dau.. 
of William Pulsifer of Ipswich, Mass. 
William A. b. 28 Feb. 1826. Went to California in 1849 
and was never heard from. 
Children by second marriage : 

Amy R. b. 12 Aug. i860; m. 2 June 1881 Eugene A. Saw- 
yer. One child, Ralph Eugene Sawyer b. 13 May, 1882.. 
Warren Appleton b. 6 April, 1864 ; d. 7 Sept. 1869. 

207 a 

Richard McOmber (Gardner 6 , Philip 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Galway, N. Y., 25 July 1792, married 
Charlotte Sexton. Removed to Michigan. 

Marvin b. 181 1 ; m. Eliza Sears; d. abt. 1840 in Illinois. Ch., 
David and Marvin, who live in Illinois. 

Elma, died at age of 2 yrs. 6 mos. 

Philo b. 14 March 1815; m. Mary Morris; d. abt. 1842. She 
d. in Marcellus, Mich, in 1893. Their only child, Mrs. Iantha 
Griffin, is living at Marcellus. 

Darwin b. 20 Nov. 1821 ; m. 1841 Emily Mott, who d. in 1851. 
Their son, John, d. in the Civil War. He m. (2) 1855 Ellen 
Green of Battle Creek, Mich. Ch., Allen b. 27 Mch. 1859, d. 21 
Nov. 1907; John b. 29 April 1866, m. Pauline Sheltz and lives in 
Hastings, Mich. ; Arlva b. 5 May 1871 m. Dr. C. P. Lathrop, 26 
June 1895, an d lived in Hastings, Mich. 

Pliny b. 15 March 1825; m. 1850, Emily Sanford. Ch., Nel- 
son, farmer in Maple Grove, Mich. ; Mrs. Owen McLaughlin* 
Nashville, Mich.; and Albert, Battle Creek, Mich. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 195; 

Otis b. ; d. abt. 1897; m - Lizzie Minnis. Ch., Fred, 

who lives with his mother at Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Maud, who 
d. abt. 1896. 

Amanda b. 5 Feb. 1834; m. Aaron Durfee; d. abt. 1902. He 
lives at Baltimore, Mich. One dau., Mrs. Hattie Baggs, Kala- 
mazoo, Mich. 

208 
Isaac McOmber (Gardner 6 , Philip 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Duchess County, N. Y., 12 Aug. 1798, mar- 
ried, 12 Jan. 1819, Anna Howland in Galway, N. Y., dau. of 
David and Sarah (Woodworth) Howland. She was born 11 
Feb. 1800, and died 26 Sept. 1870. He was a builder. Removed 
to Jefferson Co., and in 1838 to Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y., 
where he died 29 Feb. 1884. He belonged to the Society of 
Friends. Buried in Palmyra cemetery. 

Mary b. 5 March 1820; m. 1838, George Olvitt. 11 ch. 

She d. 14 Feb. 1897 at Erie, Pa. 
Electa H. b. 29 Aug. 1821 ; m. 1840 Stephen H. Allen. 

8 ch. She d. 16 April 1892, at Corry, Pa. 
Susan H. b. 26 Nov. 1822; m. 1843, William H. Whip- 
ple. 3 ch. 
260. Israel b. 30 March 1824; m. Mary F. Taber. 
Richard b. 13 Sept. 1825; d. 26 Feb. 1826. 
Ann Jane b. 14 April 1827; m. John Pierce; d. 28 Aug. 

1854. 3 ch. 
Amos C. b. 29 Aug. 1828 ; m. 1849, Lucy H. Clark. He 
was a sergeant in the Civil War and d. 28 Dec. 1863. 
Two daus. and a son, Clark McOmber, b. 1852. Dan. 

Kate d. and dau. Addie m. Snyder. Widow 

lives at Marion, N. Y. 
Abeliza H. b. 14 June 1830; m. 1848, Wm. S. Hogoboom,. 

(2) Wm. Putt— s. p. 
Stephen H. b. 6 Aug. 1833; m. 1854, Mariette Whipple, 

s. p. Galesburg, 111. 
Sarah B. b. 14 Oct. 1835 ; m. 1864, Wm. Beale, native of 
London, Eng. He d. Nov. 1891. She d. 29 Dec. 1904 
in Marion, N. Y. 4 ch. 
Hannah M. b. 4 Feb. 1840; m. 4 Oct. 1870, Charles H. 
Smith of Rochester, N. Y. Lives now (1905) in Syra- 
cuse, N. Y. s. p. 



I96 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

209 

Philip Hart McOmber (Barnabas 8 , Philip 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Providence, Saratoga Co., N. Y., 9 
Dec. 1792, married (1) Susan Brown, who d. s. p. (2) Susan 
Agnes, dau. of Rev. Joseph and Susan (Bell) Elliott. He was 
an active and intelligent Elder in the Presbyterian Church. He 
died 1 Feb. 1882. Two children: 

Susan Agnes. 

George Elliott b. 29 Jan. 1838; m. 9 Jan. 1861, Florence 
Alecia, dau. of Washington and Margaret F. Putnam of Sara- 
toga Springs, N. Y. He was for years an official in the Treasury 
Department at Washington, D. C. Four ch., Margaret Agnes b. 
1 Sept. 1867, d. 9 Jan. 1876; Philip Hart b. 23 Apr. 1870, d. 28 
July 1886; Fenlon Elliott b. 1 Sept. 1872, d. 17 Jan. 1875; and 
Elsie Agnes b. 9 March 1876. 

210 

Pardon Macomber (Wanton 15 , Abiel 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., abt. 1793, married, 22 
Sept. 1816, Pamelia, dau. of George Brownell. He died 31 Jan. 
1829, aged 36 yrs. She died Aug. 1841, aged 28 yrs. 7 mos. 
Both buried at Westport. Children : 

Mary E. d. 22 Nov. 1826, aged 2 yrs. 28 days. 

Pardon A. d. 19 Feb. 1829, aged 23 days. 

Andrew H. d. 12 Aug. 1887, aged 71-6-9. He m. 3 Mch. 1842, 
in Fall River, Deborah A. Stillwell. Ch., b. in Westport, Andrew 
P. b. 24 April 1846, d. 25 Dec. 1846; Pamelia May b. 4 Jan. 1849. 
d. 5 Dec. 1861 ; and Emma F. b. 11 June 1851, who m. 21 June 
1871, in Boston, Silas W. Ayers. 

George B. d. in New Bedford 8 Oct. 1883 (or 1888), aged 61 
years, 5 mos. He m. (1) 25 Sept. 1843, Isabella, dau. of Chris- 
topher and Amy Ball, who d. 14 March 1848, aged 28-6-13. He 
m. (2) Sarah, dau. of Pardon and Patience (Davis) Brewster, 
who d. 28 Aug. 1896, aged 69-1-5. Ch., so far as known, George 
P. b. in New Bedford 12 Dec. 1844, m. 22 Oct. 1867, Susan A., 
dau. of David and Hannah Briggs of Dighton, Mass., and had 
sons, Clarence who d. 2 June 1894, aged 21-9-21, and Leon S. b. 
22 May 1868; and Isabella W. b. 25 Aug. 1853, m. 24 Nov. 1875, 
Franklin Hammett. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY \ ( } J 

211 

Perry G. Macomber (Charles 8 , Abiel 5 , Philip 4 , John 1 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 17 April 1798, mar- 
ried, 19 April 1821, Betsey, dau. of Pardon and Mary (Dunham) 
Allen. He was a dealer in flour and grain in New Bedford, 
Deacon in the Pacific Church. He died 11 March 1875. His 
wife was born 6 June 1799 and died 6 Nov. 1865. Children: 

James P. b. 22 Sept. 1828; m. (1) 16 May 1850, Deborah \bbie 
Keith, dau. of Aberdeen and Deborah, of Middleborough. She 
d. 1 May 1864, aged 33. He m. (2) 23 Oct. 1865 Mrs. Maria L. 
(Booth) Cory, dau. of Henry and Maria H. Booth, b. 22 Nov. 
1834. He d. 21 April 1905. Ch., William H. b. 8 Tan. 1850. 
m. 22 Nov. 1881, Mrs. Ida E. Maxfield, dau. of Edmund and 
Catherine Clark and had dau. Catherine M.; and James S. b. 30 
April 1870, photographer in New Bedford. 

Thomas Whitridge b. 12 Oct. 1832; m. (1) Amanda Jordan, 
dau. of William and Lucy, who d. 17 Feb. 1869, aged 39 yrs. (2) 
Abba A., widow of Thomas C. Howland and dau. of John and 
Hannah B. (Taber) Macomber. He d. in New Bedford 9 Mch. 
1879. Several children by first marriage died young. By sec- 
ond marriage, Marie Whitridge b. 23 Oct. 1879. 

Mary A. b. 29 Sept. 1834; m. 16 Nov. 1854, Geo. W. Humph- 
rey of Rochester, Mass. 6 ch. She d. 16 Feb. 1902. 

Pardon A. b. 7 Sept. 1836; m. 29 Jan. 1857, Maria T. Lothrop,. 
dau. of Asa and Maria T. No ch. Res., New Bedford, Mass. 

212 

James Macomber (Charles , AbieP, Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., in i8o5, married, 30 Nov. 
1828, Ann, dau. of Joshua and Elizabeth (French) Potter, born 
21 May 1809. He died in Westport, 1 June 1844. She died 2a 
May 1844, aged 37 yrs. Children: 

Pardon b. 14 Feb. 1832; m. 1 May 1850, Emeline Ann, dau. 
of Major and Elizabeth (French) Borden b. 28 Jan. 1831. He 
d. in Fall River, Mass., 8 Dec. 1894, aged 62-9-28. She d. 27 
Feb. 1904. Ch., Charles E. b. 17 Feb. 1851, m. 26 May 1S73, Z. 
Minerva Hambley, dau. of Benjamin and Zeruiah of Freetown, 
and had dau. Maude B., who m. 15 July 1895, John J- Cornish;. 



198 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Harriet E. b. abt. 1856, m. 8 Nov. 1877, Walter Anthony; Clin- 
ton Foster d. 23 Jan. 1863, aged 4-8-22 ; Arthur T. b. 9 May 1858, 
•d. 17 June 1869. 

Abner P. d. 25 May 1844, aged 9 yrs. 4 mos. 

Hannah Wood d. 21 May 1844, aged 14 yrs. 6 mos. 

George Wood b. 1833; m. 23 Aug. 1856, Calista M. Wilbur, 
dau. of Solomon and Rachel. He d. 4 April 1862. Ch., Clar- 
ence R. b. 1 Dec. 1857, m. 25 Dec. 1883, Carrie J. Bassett; and 
George W. b. 7 July i860, m. 18 July 1887, Amanda E. Brown. 

James T. b. 1838; m. 10 Oct. 1861, Elizabeth E., dau. of Hal- 
sey and Ann (Borden) Covell. He d. at New Bedford 14 Jan. 
1894, aged 58. His widow m. 4 Oct. 1894, Francis H. Slocum. 
Ch., Ella T. b. 15 Aug. 1867, m. 14 June 1888, Thomas W. Macy; 
Emma A. b. abt. 1862, m. 20 Dec. 1883, Charles W. Seavey in 
Worcester; and Charles S. b. abt. 1877, m. 15 March 1898, Flora 
B., dau. of Otis A. and Rachel (King) Davis of New Bedford, 
Mass. 

213 

Jedediah Macomber (Archer 6 , Archer 3 , Philip 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born 31 Jan. 1814, married at Ledyard, N. Y., 
in 1840, Emily Durkee, born in Scipio, N. Y., 25 Jan. 1817, dau. 
of Robert and Amy (Kingsbury) Durkee. He moved to Perry, 
N. Y., where he died 26 Nov. ( or 5 Dec.) 1871. Children: 

Norman Isaac b. 27 Feb. 1842 at Perry, N. Y. ; m. 20 Dec. 
1864, Mary Harriet Cleveland, b. 25 July 1844, dau. of Alonzo 
C. and Lucinda (Hutton) Cleveland. Lives in Irvington, N. J., 
and has children, Archie, Alice (deceased), Amy, Jennie, and 
George. 

Mary D. b. 4 July 1844 ( ?) m - 1866, Rev. Benjamin Bennett. 

Arostena b. 6 Sept. 1856. Unm. 

Jennie A. b. 27 June 1858 (?). Unm. 

214 
Rescome Macomber (Varnum 6 , Humphrey 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 31 Dec. 1814, 
married 5 June 1836, Mary Shaw Brightman, born 2J Jan. 1816. 
She died 26 Jan. 1898. One child: 
262. Rufus Brightman b. 27 May 1837; m - Louisa Dean 
Soule. 



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215 

John D. Macomber (Varnum 6 , Humphrey 5 , Philip*, John', 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 16 Nov. 1824, mar- 
ried 3 Nov. 1847, Louisa, dau. of Abner and Margaret (Potter) 
Tripp, born 18 June 1828. He died in June 1886. Children 
born in New Bedford, Mass. 

Judith E. b. 3 Aug. 1854; d. 15 July 1856. 

John D. b. 22 Nov. 1856. Lives in Providence, R. I. 

Mary Louisa b. 26 March 1849. 

Angenette A. b. 2 July 1852. 

William Abram b. i860; m. 23 Dec. 1882, Harriet Adeline 
.'Simmons. 

Augusta A. b. 2 Oct. 1862. 

216 
James V. Macomber (Varnum 6 , Humphrey 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born at Westport, Mass., 29 July 1832, mar- 
ried, 13 Nov. 1853, Lucretia Hazard, dau. of Edward B. and 
Eliza. He died 13 July 1866. Two children: 

Franklin b. 18 July 1855, in Westport ; m. 8 Feb. 1880, Nellie 
Head, who d. 11 June 1890, aged 30 yrs. 11 mos. He m. (2) 
Nellie Bunker. No ch. 

Carrie A. b. 13 Jan. 1861 ; m. 22 April 1878, Orrin S. Aiken, 
(2) Mr. Scott. 

217 
Leonard Macomber (John 8 , Nathaniel 5 , John 4 , John 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 7 Feb. 1818, married, 
23 Nov. 1842, Esther, dau. of Joshua and Diana (Manchester) 
Austin of Little Compton, R. I. He died 31 Jan. 1873. She was 
born 23 Feb. 1819, and died 27 Feb. 1891. Children recorded 
. among the Friends in Westport, Mass. 

Elizabeth b. 25 Nov. 1845. Unm. 
263. John A. b. 25 Jan. 1849; m. 21 May 1874, Esther A. 
Allen. 
Hannah D. b. 31 Jan. 1852; m. 1 Jan. 1878, George E. 

Tripp; d. 27 Feb. 1898. 
Marianna b. 8 Feb. 1856; d. 9 Feb. 1869. 
Daughter b. 14 April i860; d. 24 May i860. 
Edward S. b. 18 March 1862; d. 3 Jan. 1864. 



200 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

2l8 

James Shepherd Macomber (Cornelius 8 , Nathaniel 5 , John 4 ,. 
John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 28 Nov. 
1833, married I Nov. 1859, Anna M. Austin, dau. of Otis and 
Catherine. He died 16 Oct. 1865 in Taunton, Mass. His widow 
married 29 Nov. 1866, at Newton, Frank J. Lord. 

Charles D. (or S.) b. 1861 ; in. 20 Nov. 1883, in Taunton, 
Abby C. Abernethy, b. 1864 in Bristol, Vt. Ch., Miner Shepherd 
b. 20 Nov. 1884; and Charles Grey b. 4 Nov. 1886. 

Annie Austin. 

Delmar b. 26 Sept. 1864 in Taunton. 

219 

John Macomber (James 6 , Abner 5 , John*, William 3 , William 2 ,. 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 3 March 1818 (?), married,. 
10 Nov. 1836, Sarah J., dau. of Frederick and Diadama Downing. 
Lived in Portsmouth, R. I. 

Mary Jane b. abt. 6 June 1837; d. abt. 1870; m. Shepard Har- 
riden. 

Didamie, died young. 

David m. Hannah Bennett (or Gardner). Had son Charles b. 
in Greenport, L. I., in 1868, who m. 19 June 1884, Rose Springer,, 
and d. 16 April 1899, aged 35-5-16. 

Lydia Ann b. 15 Aug. 1847; m. 1870, Frank D. Thayer. 

Sarah Jane m. (1) Joseph Munroe, (2) 25 Aug. 1886, Frank 
Guild. 

Harvey b. abt. 1853 ; rri. 7 Oct. 1874 Elizabeth S. Splain. Lives 
at Holyoke, Mass., 7 ch. 

George W. b. 22 Feb. 1852; m. (1) 10 Oct. 1879, Susan Fran- 
ces, who d. 18 Oct. 1881, aged 23, (2) 4 July 1882, Mary O'Con- 
ner of Providence, R. I., and had dau. Annabel b. 18 Nov. 1886, 
who lives at Portsmouth, R. I. He m. (3) 9 Nov. 1899, Mrs. 
Catherine (Deneen) Freelove, b. 15 Oct. 1868. 

James Henry b. abt. 1850. Unm. 

John, left home in 1868. Unknown. 

Philip C. d. 1 Aug. 1873, aged 11 yrs. 

Andrew, d. at Fall River 25 May 1853, aged 17 mos. 

Hannah m. (1) Samuel Wentworth, (2) William Cook. 



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Cynthia, d. at age of 3 yrs. 3 mos. 
Clarinda d. at age of 3 yrs. 4 mos. 
Nancy b. 10 Nov. 1866; m. 24 Nov. 1878, Jonathan Munroe. 

220 

Abner Macomber (James 6 , Abner 5 , John 4 , William 8 , William-, 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. L, married Mary Wilcox. He 
died in Portsmouth, R. I. 

Mary E, b. 1 March 1841 ; m. Charles H. Wilbur; d. s. p. 17 
Oct. 1 86 1. 

Edward P. m. 19 July 1862, Ruth Munroe. 4 ch. A dan. 
Ethel Louise m. 10 Feb. 1900, Isaac C. Church. 

Hannah b. 1 Aug. 1846; m. Lewis Munroe. 

Christina m. George Kelly of Fall River. 

Sarah b. 3 July 1848. Unm. 

Abner B. b. 12 March 1852; m. 3 June 1882, Phebe J. Brown. 

221 

Joseph Macomber (James 6 , Abner 5 , John 4 , William 3 , William 2 , 
William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., in 181 5, married (1) Esther 
Chase at Little Compton, R. I., who died 11 Nov. 1855, at Fall 
River, Mass., aged 37. He m. (2) 28 June 1867, Abby J., widow 
of Benjamin B. Manchester and dau. of Wilbur and Rhoda 
(Manchester) Macomber, his cousin. He died at Fall River 17 
June 1864. 

Joseph W. b. 1841, d. 20 March 1864. Unm. 

Francis d. 27 June 1872. Unm. 

Esther Amanda d. 24 Sept. 1861, aged 15-8-14. 

Sarah C. b. 28 May 1835 ; d. 24 Jan. 1848. 

James P. b. 30 April 1842; m. 3 March 1864, Sarah A. Brockel- 
hurst. He d. at Fall River, Mass., 11 Jan. 1904. Ch.. Laura 
E., b. 30 Nov. 1864, m. 27 April 1896, Charles D. Heathcol 
George L., b. 20 June 1S67, m. 22 March 1894, Catherine W. 
Hunter; Arthur A. b. abt. 1869, m. 29 April 1891, Elizabeth 
Payne ; and Lir : E. b. 2 March 1873. 

George C. b. 1848; m. Susan Springer. 

Daughter (Sarah?) b. 18 Aug. 1861. 

Albert A. b. 1 Jan. 1858; m. 27 Nov. 1879, Jennie S. Whit- 
temore. A dau. Lora M. d. 19 Oct. 1893, aged 12-5-12. 

Abby H. C. b. 4 Sept. 1859. 



202 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

222 

Lorenzo D. Macomber (James 8 , Abner 5 , John 4 , William 3 , 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton, R. I., 5 Nov. 1823, mar- 
ried, 3 July 1842, Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Philip and Sarah A. 
(Brownell) Chase. She died at Fall River, Mass., 14 Feb. 1893, 
aged 66-6-29. 

Philip b. 8 Jan. 1843; m - l 5 ^ a y J 867, Sarah C. Gladding. 
6 ch. ? A dau. Harriet b. 3 Nov. 1868, m. 26 April 1890, Enoch 
P. Unsworth. 

Lorenzo Thomas b. 12 Dec. 1844; m - J 8 July 1869, Mary 
Lonsdale. He d. 27 Jan. 1904. A son, Charles R. b. at Fall 
River. 

William E. b. 26 Jan. 1851 ; d. 5 Aug. 1853. 

George W. b. 1 May 1847; d. 15 July 1848. 

Charles H. b. 6 Feb. 1849; d. 22 Aug. 1866. 

George H. b. 10 Aug. 1853; d. 29 March 1854. 

Arthur H. b. 25 Feb. 1855 ; d. 9 Oct. 1855. 

Alfred E. b. 10 Oct. 1856; m. 10 March 1877, Martha Dick- 
inson. 

Mary Ella b. 14 Dec. 1858. Unm. 

223 

Benjamin Macomber (James 6 , Abner 5 , John 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born in Tiverton or Portsmouth, R. I., married, 
10 April 1834, Lydia M. Sherman at Fall River, Mass. Chil- 
dren: 

William Henry d. at Fall River 10 Feb. 1899, aged 54. He 
m. Abby J. Saunders, and had dau. Mary E., who d. 27 Sept. 
1881, aged 15 yrs. 3 days. Wife d. in Fall River 1 May 1904, 
aged 65 yrs. 

Charles F. b. abt. 1856 ; m. 23 Feb. 1879, Alice A. Clay. 

Gideon. 

Stephen m. Kate and 1. at Greenport, L. I. 

Hattie m. and d. at Providence, R. I. 

Maria m. Andrew Borden of Fall River. 

224 
Abner Macomber (Wilbur 6 , Abner 5 , John 4 , William 3 , Wil- 
liam 2 , William 1 ), born 1827 at Tiverton or Portsmouth, R. I., 



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203 



married at Fall River, Mass., 1 June 1850, Ellen Parlin, born 
in Ireland about 1830. Children : 

James A. b. July 1856; m. 7 Jan. 1877, Lucy M., dan. of Joseph 
H. and Patience (Brown) Hambley. She died at Fall River, 
Mass., 26 June 1893, aged 37"5-23- He m. (2) 24 Dec. 1896, 
Mrs. Jennie (Shedd) Bump. He d. at Fall River 23 March 1904. 

Abner T. b. abt. 1853; m. (1) (2) 5 March 

1893, Mrs. Ida M. (Caswell) Sherman. 

225 

William Macomber (William 8 , William 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 31 Aug. 1795, 
went to Readfield, Me., with his parents in 1808. He married, 
15 Jan. 1823, Polly, dau. of Gamaliel and Hannah (Curtis) Stur- 
tevant of Dexter, Me. She was born in Wayne, Me., 6 Nov. 
1800, and died 25 Jan. 1878. He was a farmer in Winthrop, 
Me., and died 4 Oct. 1878. 

Julia Ann b. 6 Oct. 1823; m. 24 Feb. 1841, Nathaniel B. 
Frost of Wayne, Me. ; d. 4 Feb. 1893. 

Cordelia Ann b. 22 Aug. 1825; m. 12 July 1846, Calvin G. 
Hale of Norridgewock, Me., d. 1907. 

William Sullivan b. 17 Jan. 1829; m. 3 Nov. 1852, Shuah 
Elizabeth, dau. of David and Shuah (Berry) French of Mt. Ver- 
non, Me. She d. 14 April 1886. He is living in Winthrop, Me. 
Ch., Florence Elma b. 26 Aug. 1853; m. 23 Dec. 1878, Josiah 
Ward Maxim of Wayne, Me. They have three children and live 
in Newcastle, Henry Co., Ind. Everett William b. 10 Nov. 1862, 
who lives on the homestead at Winthrop, Me. Farmer and 
orchardist. Unm. Selectman, 1905. 

226 

Saunders Macomber (William 6 , William 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 7 Oct. 1797, 
married Julia Bean. Went to Minnesota and died at an ad- 
vanced age. 

Augusta, died unmarried. Nurse in the Insane Asylum at 

Augusta. 

Horace, soldier in Civil War. Died in Texas. Was a farmer 
in Minnesota. Married Elizabeth, dau. of Orrison and 



204 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

(Bean) Lane of Readfield, Me. Ch., Evelyn L., Willard A., 
Fred L., Ella A., and Charles Herbert. 

George Washington. Went to Minn. Married a Norwe- 
gian lady and was prosperous. County clerk (?) 

Victoria Ann m. 9 June 1847, Elisha Drake in Ripley, Me. 

Marskalena, died in childhood. 

227 

Noah Hatch Macomber (William 6 , W'illiam 5 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 6 Dec. 
1799, married, 11 Dec. 1822, Phebe Dutton, dau. of Jesse Dut- 
ton, Esq., of Ellsworth, Me. She died 29 June 1856, aged 55 
years. He married (2) 1857, Eliza, sister of his first wife. He 
was a mason and lumberman. Lived in Ellsworth, Me., where 
he died 18 Nov. 1871. 

264 a. Charles Hatch b. 22 Nov. 1823; m. 25 Nov. 1847 

Charlotte J. Austin. 

265 b. Henry E. b. 14 July 1826; m. 10 Feb. 1853, Julia Maria 

West. 
Edmond, twin to Henry; d. 16 Sept. 1829. 
Edmond b. 14 Feb. 1832; m. 25 Dec. 1853, Adelia, dau. 

of Wm. Somerby of Ellsworth, Me. He d. 4 July 1878. 

Had one dau., Phebe Dutton b. 2 April 1862, m. Arthur 

McFadden and lives at 21 Spruce St., Portland, Me. 

228 

John Calvin Macomber (William 6 , William 3 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 8 Aug. 
1803, married, 22 Dec. 1832, Hannah, dau. of Alfred Langdon, 
Esq., of Ellsworth, Me. School teacher and Mason. 

William Slowdon b. 13 Oct. 1833; d. in Ellsworth 18 Aug. 
1902, aged 63-9-1. 

Francis Alonzo b. 22 March 1836; d. 7 Feb. 1898 in Ells- 
worth? Unm. 

Winfield Scott b. 17 May 1841. 

Sarah Wood b. 22 Sept. 1845; d. 8 March 1892 in Ellsworth. 
Unm. 



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229 

James Hervey Macomber (William , William"', Thom 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Readfield, Me., 2 D 
1813, married, Jan. 1840, Alary Jane, dan. of Seth and — 
(Knowlton) Billington of Wayne, Me. She was born 8 June 
1819 and died in 1889. He was a teacher, merchant and lawyer. 
Pie died at Milo, Me., Sept. 1881. 6 ch. : 

Henry' Ward b. 25 Nov. 1840; m. 18 Jan. 1859, Kate Swain 
Coombs. Went west in 1866 and settled at Carroll, Iowa. Law- 
yer, 6 ch. : Wilford Henry b. 15 Jan. 1861 ; d. 10 March 1882. 
Edwin James b. 23 Nov. 1863; d. 20 Aug. 1868. Frank Lin- 
coln b. 23 Jan. 1864; m. 13 Dec. 1886, Harriet, dau. of George 
and Catherine (Peironnet) Maze. Lives in Chicago and has ch., 
Donald Maze b. 4 April 1888; Katherine Peironnet b. 10 Dec. 
1890; and Dorothy b. 25 Sep. 1901. Mary Lillian b. 8 July 
1872; m. 25 Dec. 1895, A. E. Whittier, and has a son, Ward 
Macomber Whittier b. 1 Dec. 1896. Charles Coombs b. 19 Jan. 
1874. Edith Katherine b. 10 March 1876. 

Lewis M. b. 1843; d. m infancy. 

Sarah Hatch b. Jan. 1847; m. Wm. P. Young, a lawyer, who 
d. at Augusta, Me. She 1. at Creston, Iowa. Has one dau. Mrs. 
Gertrude McLean. 

James Hervey b. 9 Nov. 185 1 ; m. Nettie J. Cheney of Corinth, 
Me. Resides at Creston, Iowa. Lawyer and Judge. 6 ch., 
Mrs. Gertrude Robinson, Mrs. Sarah Stoker, Mrs. Maud Caska- 
don, Eadie, Marion, and . 

Fred b. 1854; d. in infancy. 

Charles Sumner b. 25 June 1858; m. 5 May 1S86, Mary J. 
Miller. Res., Ida Grove, Iowa. Lawyer. Ch., Stanley b. 26 
Nov. 1887; Mabel Miller b. 29 Oct. 1889; Forrest Devore b. 19 
Dec. 1893. 

230 

Charles Warren Macomber (Charles 6 , William 3 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marshfield, Mass., 1 June 
1808 lived on the ancestral estate. He married (1) 13 July 
1828, Hannah F., dau. of Hatch and Hannah (Hatch) Tilden. 
She was born 14 Nov. 1809 and died 10 Nov. 1833. He mar- 
ried (2) 19 Nov. 1834, Lucy B., dau. of Israel and Abiah W. 



206 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

(Thomas) Hatch. She was born 26 June 1810 and died 13 Jan. 
1892. He died 2j Feb. 1888. 

Charles William b. 3 Dec. 1829; m. 23 Nov. 1856, 
Abby A. Tripp of New Bedford ; m. 30 Dec. i860, 
Mary J. Tripp. Lives at Long Plain, Mass., and has 
a son Arthur, b. 26 Jan. 1865. 
Amos Hatch b. 26 June 1833; d. 8 Oct. 1833. 
Children by second marriage : 
266. Israel Hatch b. 18 July 1837; m. Elizabeth B. Sylvester. 
Sarah Elizabeth b. 28 Oct. 1839; graduated at 
Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Mass., and taught there 
for a time. Living in Cambridge, Mass. 
Ellen b. 24 June 1841 ; d. 13 Jan. 1857. 

231 

Thomas Macomber (Thomas 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay, Me., 26 Aug. 1799, married 
Lucy, dau. of Joseph Alden of Jay. He lived in Guilford, Abbot 
and Monson, Me. Died in Monson 3 Dec. 1884. She died in 
Dexter, Me., 15 Dec. 1884. Children born in Guilford, Me. 

Brittania b. 15 Jan. 1821 ; m. (1) Isaac Macomber, (2) 
2 March 1872, Solomon Crockett; d. in Davis, 111., 20 
Nov. 1895. 
Aroline Austin b. 4 Feb. 1824; m. 17 June 1838, Ward 

Safford of Dexter, Me. 
Thomas b. 1 Sept. 1825 ; m. Ann Eliza, widow of Abel 
G. Bray and dau. of Frederick F.and Louisa Dell (Fair- 
banks) Gates, of Monson. He d. in 1872. Ch., Wal- 
ter, Elwood, Willie, Emma, and Annie. 
Joseph Alden b. 22 July 1827; d. 9 Sept. 1828. 

267. Samuel Alden b. 19 April 1829; m. Emily B. Gates, 

(2) Mary Ann Norris. 

268. Albert Frank b. 18 Dec. 1831 ; m.. Lydia Flint of Abbot, 

Me. ; d. in Dexter, Me., 6 Nov. 1900. 

Lucy S. b. 29 Sept. 1834; d. 15 Oct. 1834. 

Sylvanus Boardman b. in Abbot, Me., 6 Dec. 1835 '■> m - 
Marilla Ordway of Sangerville, Me. He graduated at 
Waterville College in 1863 and at Newton Theologi- 
cal Institute in 1868. Served in the Civil War. Was 



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207 



pastor of Baptist churches in East Harrington and 
Alfred, Me., Sterling, Mass., South Lyndeboro, X. II., 
and Montgomery Center, Vt. One child, deceased. 

232 

William Macomber (Thomas , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thorn 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Guilford, Me., 20 Feb. 18 18, mar- 
ried, 6 July 1845, Mary J. Edes. He died in Guilford 12 Sept. 
1 88 1. She was born in Guilford 20 Oct. 1822 and died th< 
Feb. 1877. Children born in Guilford, Me. 

Mary Susan b. 2 July 1849; m - 15 April 1869, J olin 
Henry Morgan. She d. at Hillsboro, N. Dakota, 27 
April 1884. He b. 16 July 1840 in Guilford, d. at Hills- 
boro, 27 June 1884. 
269. William Henry b. 21 Nov. 185 1 ; m. 1 June 1880, Laura 
J. Doyle, b. 1865. 

233 

Joseph R. Reynolds Macomber (Joseph", Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay, Me., 25 Jan. 1809, 
married 19 Apr. 1829, Nancy, dau. of Joseph and Martha (Dun- 
bar) Reynolds, born in Bridgewater, Mass., 30 March 1808. He 
died in Livermore, Me., 13 March 1893. 

Julia A. abt. 1830; m. Rial Lamkin and 1. in Livermore, Me. 

David b. abt. 183 1. Unmarried. 

Liza Jane b. abt. 1833; m. Daniel Kimball, (2) Albert Ma- 
comber of Jay, Me. 

Britany b. abt. 1843 ; m. Charles Kimball of Livermore, Me. 

Betsey b. abt. Sept. 1844; d. 16 Oct. 1899. Unm. 

Lilly b. abt. 1841 ; d. unm. 

Vesta S. b. abt. 1845. Unmarried. 

Nancy b. abt. 1847. Unmarried. 

234 
Azel Macomber (Joseph 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay, Me., 10 April 1806, married 2 
Dec. 1824, Sophia R., dau. of Joseph and Martha (Dunbar) 
Reynolds, born in Bridgewater, Mass., 29 April 1802, and died in 
Jay, Me., 15 Dec. 1897. Children: 



208 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Justus b. abt. 1826; m. Eunice Perkins and 1. in Carthage, Me. 
One son is recorded in Jay, Ferdinand D. b. 23 Jan. 1863, who 
m. Cora M. Smith and 1. in Carthage and Dixfield, Me. 7 ch. 

Asa Benson b. abt. 1827; m. Lucy Reed and 1. in Brockton, 
Mass., where he d. 10 May 1899, aged 71-1-10. Two daus. One 
was Eldora b. abt. 1854 and m. 22 Sept. 1872 Wm. M. Webber 
at N. Bridgewater, Mass. 

Olive b. abt. 1829; m. 19 Dec. 1850, George Goodnough ; 1. 
in Jay. 

Oliver R. b. abt. 1830; m. Lucy A., dan. of Nathaniel and 
Lucy (Reed) Green b. in Wilton. Me. She d. in Carthage, Me., 
16 Oct. 1893, aged 62-8-10. Three children live at Auburn, Me., 
Azel O., Olive, and Leonard, who was b. abt. 1862 and m. (1) 
Eva M. Taylor who d. 11 July 1898, aged 30-6-17, and (2) 27 
Sept. 1899, Lilly May Darling of Bowdoin, Me. 

Susanna R. b. abt. 1832; m. 16 Oct. 1856, Benj. P. Phillips at 
Randolph, Mass., (2) Josiah Gay of Stoughton, Mass. 

Adeline Melissa b. abt. 1833; m. 6 Nov. 1853, Josiah S. 
Drake ; 1. in Auburn, Me. 

Martha b. abt. 1836; m. 6 April 185 1, Samuel Look of Jay. 
7 ch. 

Mahala b. abt. 1S38 ; m. John Newman and 1. in Illinois. 

Daniel b. abt. 1840; m. and 1. in Oakland, Cal. 

Columbus b. abt. 1843 \ m - Melvina Macomber and 1. in Jay, 
Maine. 

235 

Ichabod Macomber (Joseph 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ) born in Jay, Me., 18 May 181 2, married, 2.J 
Jan. 1833, Rebecca, dau. of Elisha and Rebecca Hayden of Jay, 
born 22 Aug. 1810. He died in Jay 22 June 1892. She died 25 
Jan. 1892. 

Ann Maria b. 12 April 1834; d. in infancy. 

Helen Maria b. 7 July 1836; m. 28 Jan. 1855, Josiah Allen 
and 1. at Livermore Falls, Me. 

Ann L. b. 19 April 1839; m. John L. Tibbetts of Jay; d. 16 
Nov. 1862. 

Charles Leonard b. 4 May 1841 ; m. 4 May 1870, Helen M. 
Hanson, b. 4 July 1847. Res., Jay, Me. Ch., Lovena C. b. 20 
Dec. 1872 d. 31 July 1889. Manfred A., b. 7 March 1874, m. 28 



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April 1897, Rosa A. Hathorne, dau. of Jackson and Lorinda 
(Chapman) b. 10 May 1868; John Hanson 1). 25 ( let. [875 m. 
18 Nov. 1899, Bertha M. Thompson, clan, of Clarence and Alice 
(Richardson) b. 4 Sept. 1877; Eva b. 9 March 1891. 

Mary Augusta b. 28 Sept. 1843; m - (04 May 1864, Freder- 
ick C. Cole in Boston, (2) C. Ellis Gay and 1. in Haverhill, Ma 

Rebecca b. 11 Sept. 1845; d. n Nov. 1867. 

Sarah Louisa b. 14 April 1848; m. Winslow Reed of Jay. 

Manfred A. b. 27 March 1851 ; d. 30 Aug. 1 Si ,7. 

236 

James Ripley Macomber (Joseph 6 , Thomas-', Thomas', 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay, Me., 7 Feb. 1822, 
married, 19 Feb. 1844, Nancy, dan. of Joshua Campbell of Jay, 
born abt. 1821. He married (2) widow Catherine Morri.- 
and died at Phillips, Me., 12 March 1903. She died 27 July 
1904, aged 83-0-13. Children: 

Eliphalet b. abt. 1849; m - Fannie Morrison. 2 ch., Cora and 
Res. Strong, Me. 

Olive m. (1) Hiram Fnrbush, (2) Silas Alden.Dan., Bertha 
Furbnsh m. Albert Tolman. Lives at Livermore Falls, Me. 

Russell b. 2 Feb. 1854; m. (1) Mary Morrison, (2) Altina 
B. Brainard, who d. 21 July 1897, aged 36 yrs. 21 days, (2) 29 
Dec. 1802, Mrs. Abbie A. (Howard) Harris. He 1. in New 
Sharon and d. in Greene, Me., 20 Apr. 1905. 2 ch. by first mar- 
riage and one by third, Charles R. b. abt. 1880 in Industry, Me., 
who m. 7 Mch. 1803, Mrs. Rose D. (Chapman) Frost, who d. in 
New Sharon, Me., 20 Aug. 1905, aged 30-8-12; Jennie; and 
Methyl b. 3 Oct. 1903. 

Ichabod Macomber (Ichabod 6 , Thomas', Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ) born at Easton, Mass., 21 Oct. 1810, mar- 
ried, 22 May 1839, Mary Elizabeth Brewer and lived at New- 
ton Center, Mass., where he died 23 Jan. 1893. 

Howard b. 31 Aug. 1840; d. 17 Jan. 18 — . 

William b. 28 Feb. 1846; unm. Lives in Boston. 

Frank Gair b. 20 Feb. 1849, at Jamaica Plains, Mass. ; m. 22 
Oct. 1877, Clara Robeson and is a lawyer in Boston. Ch., Isa- 
bella Oeden Reed b. 16 Mch. 1879, m. 9 Feb. 1899, Charles P. 



2IO MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Lyman; Frank Gair, b. 10 Jan. 1883; and Margaret b. 30 Aug. 
1889, who d. 31 Aug. 1889. 

Albert Howard b. 21 April 1851 ; m. 29 April 1874, Jennie A. 
Watts, dau. of Ira and Sarah, who d. 27 Sept. 1889, aged ^2. He 

m. (2) Lillian and 1. at Newton Centre, Mass. Ch., Mabel 

Watts b. 30 Mch. 1876 m. 3 June 1896, Charles W. Haynes; 
Grace Alta b. 21 Oct. 1877; Sarah b. 13 Aug. 1881. 

Grenville b. 14 Sept. 1853; m. 21 Mch. 1877, Emily Alice 
Estabrook and 1. in Newtonville, Mass. Ch., Alice Estabrook b. 
7 May 1878, m. Ernest Weeks; Elizabeth b. 2J April 1879;: 
Marion b. 14 Feb. 1881, d. 13 May 1881 ; Grenville Brown b. 1 
Mch. 1883. 

238 

William Macomber (Ichabod 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 ,. 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born at Easton, Mass., 3 July 1821, lived in 
Newton Centre, Mass. He married (1) 13 March 1845, Mary 
Steadman Tileston Leeds, dau. of Benjamin Ingersoll and Mary 
(Tileston) Leeds, born 4 Aug. 1827. She died 17 Dec. 1872. 
He married (2) 15 Aug. 1876, Josephine Moore at Wilton, N. H. 
He died at Newton 5 Dec. 1904. 

William Ingersoll b. 15 Feb. 1847; d. 11 Sept. 1867 in New 
Orleans. Unm. 

Fannie Howard b. 12 Sept. 1848; m. 19 Nov. 1874, George 
Emerson, who d. 23 July 1878. (2) 27 Aug. 1887 Joseph W. 
Stover. Lives in East Orange, N. J. Ch., Howard Emerson, 
b. 31 Aug. 1875, m. Ada Maxwell; Ethel Bartlett Stover b. 24 
Feb. 1890 d. 15 Sept. 1890. 

James b. 28 Dec. 1849; m - 3 Dec. 1874, Mary Simmons and 1. 
at Newton Centre. Ch., Philip b. 8 Sept. 1875 ; Harold b. Aug. 
1880, d. 3 Dec. 1880; Alexander b. May 1885. 

Francis Edward b. 10 Oct. 1852; m. 18 Mch. 1884, Uleyetta 
Williams and 1. in Newtonville, Mass. Ch., Donald b. 26 Jan. 
1885; Dorothea b. 13 July 1886; and Katherine. 

Ella Louise b. 3 Jan. 1855. 

George Arthur b. 16 April 1857; m. 23 Jan. 1883, Hattie 
Osgood and 1. in Somerville, Mass. Ch., Laurence Osgood, b- 
21 May 1885; Robert Leeds b. 23 Apr. 1887; George Arthur b. 1 
Feb. 1897. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 2 I I 

Mary Leeds b. 6 Apr. i860; d. 16 March 1861. 

Walter Leeds b. 3 Sept. 1862; m. 1 Sept. 1897 Mary E. Bur- 
pee; d. 19 Feb. 1899. 

Sarah Nesmith b. 6 Oct. 1863; m. 26 Oct. 1898, George II. 
Adams and -1. in Canton, Mass. Ch., Caroline Mary b. 14 Oct. 
1899; Frederick Wildes b. 3 Mch. 1901 ; Alice Macomber b. 15 
Aug. 1902. 

Alice Mabel b. 14 April 1866; m. 28 June 1900, Robert B. 
Greenwood and 1. in Providence, R. I. 

Children by second marriage : 

Bessie b. 18 Sept. 1877. 

Gertrude b. 11 Jan. 1879; d. 8 March 1885. 

Leonard b. 11 March 1880. 

Agnes b. 23 Sept. 1882. 

239 

James Brown Macomber (Ichabod 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born at Dorchester, Mass., 23 
March 1823, married, 21 Sept. 1853, Sarah A. T. Mann, dau. of 
John and Kate (Harrington) Mann. She was born 5 July 1827, 
and died 31 July 1882. He died at Brooklyn, N. Y. His home 
was in Boston. 

Caroline b. 7 June 1854; d. 9 Jan. 1883. Unm. 

Chandler, died 8 April 188 1. Unm. 

Sarah b. ; m. 15 May 1878, Henry Nesmith, Jr., at 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Daughter b. 31 Dec. 1864. 

Frederick H. b. 16 June 1866. 

Harrison W. b. 3 Feb. 1868; m. 3 Feb. 1892, Mary Jenet Dan- 
forth. She d. in Lexington, Mass., 3 June 1896, aged 26-1-26. 

Grace Ethel b. 7 June 1874; m. 16 Nov. 1897, Geo. Moses 
Whitcomb. 

Carrie C. d. 25 May 1887, age 2-7-28. 

240 
Sally Howard Macomber (Ichabod 8 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 13 May 1825, married, 4 
March 185 1, Henry E. *Nesmith and lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
She died 20 Jan. 1878. 



2 12 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Sarah Macomber Nesmith b. 9 Dec. 1851 ; d. 10 June 1853. 

Henry Nesmith b. 16 May 1854; m. 16 May 1878, Sarah 
Macomber. 

Mary Caroline Nesmith b. 20 May 1856; m. 2 Dec. 18S0, 
Benj. A. Jessup. Lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Howard Nesmith b. 22 Dec. 1857; m. Jennie M. Burleson. 
Astoria, N. Y. 

Frederic Nesmith b. 28 April 1859; d. 9 March 1861. 

Agnes Nesmith b. 1 March 1861 ; m. 3 May 1883, Edwin H. 
Shethar. 

Abby Nesmith b. 24 May 1863 ; m. 30 June 1885, Henry E. 
Baxter. 

George Nesmith b. 13 Dec. 1865; d. 29 Sept. 1866. 

Charles Nesmith b. 19 March 1868; m. 18 June 1891, Helen 
West. 

241 

Mary Judson Macomber (Ichabod 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 23 Sept. 1830, married, 4 
Mch. 1 85 1, Wm. C. Merriam and lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Wm. Clark Merriam b. 22 Dec. 1851 ; unmarried. 

Henry Merriam b 8 Feb. 1855; m. 11 Nov. 1886, Carrie 
Bonnele. 

Mary Macomber Merriam b. 6 April i860; m. 21 April 1886, 
Theodore Boreham, (2) Lewis Charles Buck, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

242 

Asa A. Macomber (Isaac 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 10 May 1805, married (1) Sarah, dau. 
of Samuel and Kezia (Leland) McLanathan. She was born in 
1808 and died in 1840 at Dover, Me. He m. (2) Romelia Camp- 
bell, (3) Mary T. Watson born abt. 1808 in N. H. He died in 
Dover, Me., 2 Nov. 1892, aged 87-5-22. Children all living in 
1850. One other by first marriage may have died earlier, and 
another b. after 1850. 

Isaac b. abt. 1832. 

Samuel b. abt. 1835. 

Elizabeth b. abt. 1837. 

Asa C. b. abt. 1843. 

Mary W. b. abt. 1846; d. in Dover 4 Sept. 1902. Unm. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 213 

Wallace W. b. abt. 1847; m - Mary E. Hutchinson. Lives in 

Dttver, Me. 

Lysander b. abt. 1848. 

243 

Isaac Macomber (Isaac , Thomas - "', Thomas 4 , Thom 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), b. about 1814, married about 1838, his 
cousin, Brittania Macomber, dau. of Thomas and Lucy (Alden) 
Macomber. Children born in' Dexter, Me. He died about 186 

She married (2) 2 March 1872, Solomon Crocket. 

Averill b. abt. 1839; living in 1850. Prob. d. young. 

Anna R. b. at Abbot, Me., 4 Feb. 1840; m. 17 May 1858, Dex- 
ter S. Bailey. 

Justus b. 1842; d. 1846. 

Ichabod b. 6 May 1843; m - l 7 O ct - ^76, Mary Crockett. 

Lavilla b. 1846; m. 30 Sept. 1874, Hazard Babcock. Res.,. 
Brookfield, N. Y. 

Isaac J. b. 1848. 

George Washington b. 1850; d. 1853. 

244 

Tilson Macomber (Winchester 6 , Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 8 * 
Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay, Me., 22 Jan. ISO'S, married. 4 
June 1843, Mary Snell Reynolds, dau. of Simeon and Mary 
(Snell) of Bridgewater, Mass., bom 17 Dec. 1820. He died in 
Jay 7 Oct. 1885. 

Abbie b. 1844; m. John Morse and 1. in Carthage, Me. 

George A. b. abt. 1848; died unmarried. 

Melvina m. Columbus Macomber of Jay. No. ch. 

Rosella m. Fred Billings and 1. in Holden, Me. 

245 
George R. Macomber (Winchester 6 , Thomas', Thon 
Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Jay. Me., 7 May 1827, 
married (1) 17 March 1850, Mary H. Manwell, who was burn 16 
June 1828, and died 21 Dec. 1871, (2) 5 Jan. 1874. 
Humphreys, dau. of Israel, who died Dec. 1875. (3) 6 Feb. 1 :;. 
Lucy Townsend of Dixfield, Me., born 21 May 1841, dau. or' 
James and Sally (Wright). 



214 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Aldana b. 1 8 Sept. 1851, m. Henry W. Fuller and 1. in Jay. 

George Herbert 6 Apr. 1853, d. at Chicopee, Mass., 15 June 
1900; m. Ida W. Rollins, dau. of James P. and Addie (Waitt), 
who d. at Lynn, Mass., 27 Feb. 1892, aged 37-5-23. He m. (2) 
Henrietta Leonard. 

Eugene W. b. i860, m. Lucy E. Humphrey and 1. in Auburn, 
Me. 

Marsella b. 1858; d. Sept. 1876. Unm. 

Edward R. b. 1866 ; m. 7 May 1899, Mary E., dau. of Arteman 
"L. and Eliza J. (Witham) Richardson, and 1. in Chicopee, Mass. 

Arthur C. b. 18 Dec. 187 1 ; m. 22 May 1897, Eva M., dau. of 
Henry A. and Mary (Packard) Bryant of Jay. Dau., Eva M., b. 
3 Nov. 1902. Son, Roland Bryant, b. 1 June 1899. 

Children by third marriage : 

Harry L. b. 26 May 1878; m. 19 Mch. 1904, Hattie O. Morri- 
son. 

Chester C. b. 7 Nov. 1880. 

246 

Charles Augustus Macomber (Winchester 6 , Thomas 5 , 
Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), b. in Jay, Me., about 
1830, married Elizabeth A. Parker, born at North Berwick, Me. 
Lived at Charlton, Mass., and Riverside, Cal. She died at Charl- 
ton, 22 Oct. 1888, aged 63-9-15. 

Emma M. b. abt. 1853; m. 24 Mch. 1881, Thomas Adams; 1. in 
Riverside, Cal. 

Wm. Stearns b. 1855 ; m. 17 Jan. 1880, Mary A. Strangeman 
and 1. in Dedham, Mass. 

Charles F. b. abt. 1858; m. 13 Sept. 1881, Emma A. White, 
who d. 28 May 1889, aged 28-8-25; (2) 1 Nov. 1892 in Dedham, 
Mass., Esther J. Marra. Son, Chester E. b. 18 June 1884, who 
d. 5 Nov. 1897 at Sturbridge, Mass. 

Mary Q. b. abt. i860; m. 4 July 1882, Charles E. Ainsworth, 
Sturbridge, Mass. 

Sarah L. b. abt. 1863 ; m. 14 Feb. 1883, Oliver Frank Davis, 
Charlton, Mass. 

Ella b. 22 May 1867. 



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EIGHTH GENERATION 



247 

Robert M. Macomber (John 7 , Elijah . Elijah 5 , William 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Plymouth, Mass., 17 July 1842, 
moved to Monmouth, Me., with his father. He married Sarah 
J., dau. of Jacob G. and Jane (Tilton) Smith of E. Monmouth, 
Me., where he lives. She was born 2 Dec. 1843. 

Charles S. b. in Chatham, Mass., 3 Aug. 1865 ; m. Blanche S., 
dau. of Rufus King. Blacksmith, Portland, Me. 4 ch. One of 
them, Vivian, d. in Skowhegan, 21 July 1901, aged 5 yrs. 

Nellie b. in Chatham 19 Aug. i860; m. Charles Woodbury 
of Monmouth. 

Sadie J. b. in Monmouth 1872; m. Will H. Burnell, Phillips, 
Me., in Lynn, 26 Aug. 1895. 

Emma F. b. 8 Nov. 1875; m. J. W. Ricker, farmer in Wales, 
Me. 3 ch. 

Annie b. 11 Sept. 1883. 

Irving b. 11 March 1886. 

248 

George L. Macomber (John 7 , Elijah 6 , Elijah 5 , William 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , John 2 , William 1 ), born in Plymouth, Mass., 6 Dec. 1844, 
married (1) Allie E. Tinkham, who died Jan. i860, (2) 1874, 
Abbie L. Tinker, born in Calais, Me., 12 July 1855. He lives in 
Monmouth, Me. 

Allie E. b. 19 Feb. 1876. 

Warren V. b. 2.J July 1878; m. 26 Aug. 1903, Maude A. 
Flanders, and had a son b. 3 Apr. 1904. 

Myra A. b. 26 Nov. 1880. 

George L. b. 26 Oct. 1884. 

Roy E. b. 28 May 1890. 

Edith M. b. 6 Feb. 1892. 

249 
Wesson Macomber (Silas 7 , Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle, Vt., 7 May 181 5, 
married Mary Ann Flint, who was born 2 Aug. 18 17 and died 27 
Aug. 1896. He died 8 Jan. 1893, having lived at Grand Isle. 



2l6 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Alfred b. n Sept. 1838; d. 20 April 1848. 

Jeremiah b. 25 May 1840; d. 4 April 1847. 

Orlando b. 1 Oct. 1842; killed at battle of Cold Harbor, Va.,. 
1 June 1864. 

Anne E. b. 11 Feb. 1845; d. 24 Oct. 1898. 

Abner H. b. 5 Aug. 1847; m. 16 March 1876, Henriette Gris- 
wold and lives at Grand Isle, Vt. Ch., Eva A. b. 31 May 1878;. 
Mary A. b. 22 May 1896. 

Helen B. b. 14 Nov. 1849, d. 28 Sept. 1873. 

Calista M. b. 15 Feb. 1852. 

Edwin A. b. 28 Sept. 1854; m. Esther Maynard, 22 June 1881, 
and lives at Rutland, Vt. Ch., Howard M. b. 19 Feb. 1883; 
Doris b. 29 June 1887; Donald W. b. 9 Aug. 1894; Polly L. b. 
20 June 1 90 1. 

250 

Silas Macomber (Silas 7 , Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , William 3 ,. 
William 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle. Vt., 26 July 1827, mar- 
ried Lucy Donaldson. He died 25 Feb. 1898. 

Clarissa A. b. 21 June 1852; m. Melvin Ladd. Res. Grand 
Isle, Vt. 

James C. b. 15 Feb. 1857; m. Jane Anderson. Res. Grand 
Isle, Vt. 

•Frances L. b. 19 Sept. 1863. 

Antoinette M. b. 12 June 1866; m. Henry Stone, South 
Hero, Vt. 

Mabel A. b. 23 April 1871 ; m. 

251 

Joseph E. Macomber (Joseph 7 , Wesson 6 , John 5 , William 4 , 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Grand Isle, Vt., 29 April- 
1822, married, 9 Sept. 1847, Finis G. M., dau. of Isaac and Finis 
Gassett (Maynard) Borden, who was born 22 Dec. 1825. He 
was a farmer and lived in Grand Isle, Vt., Farmington, N. Y., 
and Portsmouth, R. I. lie died 7 Feb. 1906. 

Cyrus B. b. 22 Aug. 1848; d. 15 Jan. 1852. 

Isaac B. b. 8 June 1852 ; m. 3 June 1879, Abbie A. Cushman, 
dau. of Samuel and Betsey A., of Middlebcro, Mass. Lives in 
Portsmouth, R. I. Ch., Carlton b. 12 July 1880; Maurice E. b. 
20 Jan. 1S82; and Gertrude E. b. 13 July 1884. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 217 

William P. b. 20 May 1854; m. 1 Feb. 1883, Mary Bourn; d. 

25 Aug. 1884. Dau. Marguerite b. July 1884. 

Ellwood G. b. 30 Dec. 1857; m. 28 Jan. 1897, Grace Brownell, 
dau. of James A. and Hannah, of Tiverton, R. I. Ch., Anna 
Evangeline, and Miriam Gertrude. 

Elizabeth W. b. 10 Feb. i860; m. 11 Feb. 1886, Edward A. 
Smiley. Ch., Agnes M., Marion E., Margaret R. b. l8 Dec. 
1891, Helen G. b. 15 Jan. 1894, and Elizabeth b. 3 Aug. [897. 

Anna B. b. 22 Oct. 1862; unm. 

Richard B. b. 14 June 1864; m. 3 Jan. 1894, Mary \Y. Chase. 
Ch., William P. b. 16 Oct. 1888, and Finis Mabel b. 1 March 1893. 

252 

Richard R. Macomber (Joseph 7 , Wesson 6 , John', William*, 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 18 Jan. 1832, married, 26 
May 1854, Sarah J., dau. of William and Mary W. (Hicks) 
Deane, born at Sandy Hill, N. Y. He died 17 March 1884. She 
died 4 June 1898, aged 67 yrs. 2 mos. 

Caroline Frances b. 20 April 1855 ; d. 20 June 1856. 

Mary Elizabeth b. 17 April 1856; m. 22 Nov. 1898, Edward 
A. Smiley, his second wife. 

Albert Richard b. 4 Feb. i860; m. 22 Dec. 1882, Ida M. 
Inglis. 

Joseph Edwin b. 11 May 1863; m. 22 May 1886, Hattie E. 
Peckham. Ch., Willis Blossom b. 1 Dec. 1887, Edwin Deane b. 
Sept. 1890, d. 7 Feb. 1897, Marian Weekes b. 10 Sept. 18 
Walter Raymond b. 10 Sept. 1895 d. 2 Sept. 1901, Abbie Louise 
b. 22 Jan. 1900, and Richard Warren b. 30 June 1902. 

Katherine Esther b. 11 Dec. 1865; m. 20 Oct. 1887, Dana 
S. Gardner. 

Ellwood F. b. 16 May 1869; m. 20 Aug. 1900, Mary P. Eddy. 
Ch., Richard Simmons b. Aug. 1903. 

Louise Sophia b. 12 July 1871. 

253 

William P. Macomber (Joseph 7 , Wesson . John 6 , William 4 . 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born 18 Jan. 1832, married 
Esther Deane, born 21 April 1839. Children as found on the 
Friends' record at Westport, Mass. Lives at Fairhaven, M 1 
Preacher among the Friends. 



2l8 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Elmer Ellwood b. 26 May 1863 ; m. 2 ch. 

George Refine b. 16 Aug. 1865; died 11 Feb. 1888. 

Dr. William Samuel b. 13 Dec. 1869; m. Nellie S. Lloyd 26 
April 1893. 1 ch. 

Mary Elizabeth b. 4 Jan. 1875 ; m. Asa Edward Kelsey, 21 
Sept. 1899. They were missionaries in Palestine. 2 ch. 

254 

Albert W. Macomber (Wesson 7 , John 6 , John 5 , William 4 , Wil- 
liam 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Chesterfield, N. Y., 25 Feb. 
1826, married, 5 Jan. 1848, Sarah Day, dau. of Jehiel and Sarah 
(Day) Beardsley of Port Jackson, N. Y. She was born 1 March 
1826, and died 7 July 1888. He married (2) 12 Sept. 1889, 
Hattie, dau. of Charles Ferris. He is a farmer and lives at 
Peru, N. Y. 

George N. b. 13 May 1853; m. Minnie Adams of Potsdam, 
N. Y. Physician in Denver, Col. Ch., Victor, Marion, Harold, 
Kenneth, and Douglass. 

Edmund E. b. 12 May 1869; m. Julia Hilliard. Physician in 
Delta, Col. Ch., Hilliard and Victor. 

Eunice b. 24 Nov. 1848 ; m. Rev. Charles Bradford. 

Addie S. b. 1 Jan. 185 1 ; m. James Wardner, 4 ch. 

Lillian M. b. 23 June i860; m. Rev. George A. Kerr. 6 ch. 

255 

Andrew S. Macomber (Gilbert 7 , Gilbert 6 , William 3 , Timothy 4 , 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 30 
March 1830, married, 23 March 1854, Lydia K., dau. of Eli and 
Polly (Potter) Tripp. She was born 29 March 1833 and die'd 
20 Nov. 1899. He lives in Westport, Mass. Children: 

Philip Everett b. 28 Jan. 1855; m. 22 Jan. 1876, Ida M. San- 
ford, dau. of Philip and Cynthia. Farmer in Westport. Son, 
Charles W. b. 15 July 1876, m. 15 July 1897, Clara A., dau. of 
Isaac E. and Nellie R. (Tripp) Snell and has daughter, Bessie. 

Abraham Chester b. 24 April 1857 ; m. 25 Dec. 1879, Hattie 
J., dau. of Josiah and Mary S. (Case) Kingman. Grocer by 
trade. He d. 21 March 1887. One son, Macy Chester b. 1 Jan. 
1885, who lives in Washington, D. C. Widow m. (2) 19 Oct. 
1897, Herbert L. Pettey of Westport. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



2IQ 



Eli Andrew b. 15 March 1859; d. 10 April 1864. 

Macy Clifford b. 17 March 1861 ; m. 1 Nov. 1885, Laura J., 
dau. of Eli F. and Abbie Tripp. Ch., M. Clifford b. 3 Sept. 1X88, 
Orin B. b. 11 Sept. 1893, and d. 6 March 1894, Eli A. b. 24 Jan. 
1896, Dana, and Lydia deceased. 

James Andrew b. 13 July 1868; m. 30 July 1895, Florence A., 
dau. of Edward F. and Sylvia (Snell) Drake. Ch., Kenneth, 
Stanley and Marguerite. 

Alice Maria b. 3 Aug. 1870; m. 13 Jan. 1895, Frank A. Davol. 
Ch., Raymond, and Irene. 

Clarence R. b. June 1873; m - I2 Feb. 1895, Lottie B. Davol. 
Ch., Ralph R. b. 16 March 1897, Carlton D. b. 11 Oct. 1898, 
Doris Edna b. 17 Jan. 1904, Stanley Byron b. 1 July 1905, and 
Eunice Brayton b. 5 Aug. 1907. 

256 

Darius Macomber (Gilbert 7 , Gilbert 6 , William 5 , Timothy', 
William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport 29 April 1834, 
married, 13 May 1859, Dorcas M., dau. of Lemuel and Lydia 

( ) Dyer. He died in Westport 13 March 1908, aged 73- 

10-14. She died 26 June 1884, aged 51 yrs. 5 mos. Three chil- 
dren : 

Charles D. b. 23 Aug. i860; m. Maggie J. Fleming and 1. ir 
Westport. Ch., Son b. 21 Dec. and d. 29 Dec. 1886; Darius F. 
b. 6 June 1888; Charles A. b. 28 Oct. 1889; Son b. 10 Dec. 1890; 
and Miriam. 

Mabel b. 21 Feb. 1866; m. 16 Dec. 1885, James Alexander, 
son of Benjamin F. and Sarah A. (Gray) Macomber of Tiv- 
erton. 

Arthur C. b. 4 Oct. 1871. Unm. 

257 
Gilbert Green Macomber (Gilbert 7 , Gilbert , William 5 . Tim- 
othy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., in 
1837,' married 2 Apr. 1865, Deborah B., dau. of Lawton C. and 
Almi'ra (Tripp) Wood, who 28 Mar. 1873, aged 29-0-18. He 
married (2) 6 Aug. 1874, Mrs. Mary C. (Fisher) Chadwick of 
Nantucket, dau. of Amaziah and Susan (Hart) Fisher. He died 
11 Oct. 1896, aged 59-5-13- in Westport. His widow married (2) 



2 20 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

15 Sept. 1898, Benjamin M. Fisher, at Nantucket. Two chil' 
clren : 

William E. b. 14 Jan. 1866; m. 26 Feb. 1897, Addie R., dau. 
of John and Frances (Taber) Jones, in New Bedford, Mass. 

Edward G. b. 4 Oct. 1876; m. 4 Oct. 1896, Mary E., dau. of 
Charles H. and Sarah R. (Davis) Allen. Ch., Dorothy S. b. 18 
June 1898, d. 1 Nov. 1899, and daughter b. 29 Sept. 1899. 

258 

George William Macomber (William 7 , Roger 6 , William 5 , 
Timothy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born at Perry, N. Y., 
2 July 1820, married Nancy Crampton, born 1824. He died 17 
June 1845, an d she married (2) 1850, S. B. Griffen of Oak- 
field, N. Y. 

George William b. 13 Feb. 1846; m. 2 Aug. 1868, Sarah 
Elizabeth, dau. of Peter C. and Mary L. Myett, b. 4 Oct. 1850 at 
Maquoketa, Iowa, where he lives. Served two years in Company 
M, 2d Regiment of Mounted Rifles, N. Y. Vol., enlisting 22 Sept. 
1863, and discharged at Petersburg, Va., 10 Aug. 1865. Ch., 
George Willard b. 17 May 1869, P. O. address, West Branch, 

Iowa; and Minnie May b. 29 Nov. 1S70; m. Wolaver, 

Dundee, 111. 

259 

Francis Allen Macomber (William 7 , Roger 6 , William 5 , Tim- 
othy 4 , William 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born at Alabama, N. Y., 5 
April 1837, married, 1866, Mary Gardner Selden, dau. of Judge 
Henry Rogers and Laurie Annie (Baldwin) Selden. She was 
born in 1839 and died in 1880. He married (2) Alary S., dau. of 
Isaac Butts of Rochester, N. Y. He died 13 Oct. 1893. He 
graduated at Rochester University in 1859 and received the 
degree of LL.D. from his Alma Mater in 1887. Member of the 
Phi Beta Kappa. Judge of Supreme Court at Rochester, N. Y. 
See landmarks of Monroe Co., N. Y. p. 214. 

Francis S. b. 1868; lawyer in Rochester, N. Y. 

Louise Selden b. 1870; d. 1875. 

Augusta M. Hayden, Avon, N. Y. 

Henry Selden d. 27 April 1889, aged 16-8-23. 

Children by second marriage : 

DeWitt B. 

Mary. 

William. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY • .• i 

260 

John C. Macomber (Perry P. 7 . Perry 6 , V Philip*, 

John 3 , William-, William 1 ), born in Westport, Mass., 4 Vpi 
married, 23 Nov. 1853, Eliza A., dau. of William , 
(Dnnnells) Pulsifer of Ipswich, Mass. I [e was ti 
lectoV of Westport fifteen years, Postmaster thirty-one 
selectman and Justice of the Peace, lie died 10 Sept. [< 
died 8 Aug. 1905, aged 74 yrs. 4 mos. Three chil 

Mary F. b. 3 Feb. 1855; m. 16 May 1873, Geoi 
Chester. Flad dau. Maude Louise Winchester b. 
graduated at Boston University in 1900 and studied language in 
Europe. 

William A. b. 16 Dec. 1859; d. 6 March 1862. 

Nellie Louise b. 14 Jan. 1863; m. 18 Aug. 1885, David i 
Lawrence. She graduated from the Women's Medical College, 
Philadelphia, and is a practicing physician in Boston, Mass. 

261 

Israel Macomber (Isaac 7 , Gardner 6 , Philip r \ Philip 4 , John', 
William 2 , William 1 ), born 30 March 1824, in Jefferson Co., X. 
Y. m. 28 Dec. 1845, Mary F., dau. of Silas and Susan (Bristol) 
Taber. He entered the army in the Civil War and died at Hilton 
Head Hospital, S. C, 26 Feb. 1863. His wife, born 23 March 
1827, died at Marion, N. Y., 14 Dec. 1902. Five children, who 
write their name McOmber. 

Susan A. b. 28 Dec. 1846 in Palmyra, N. Y. ; m. 23 Feb. 1882, 
George E. Wood, who d. 1 Oct. 1890. 

Silas T. b. 30 Aug. 1849, at Palmyra, N. Y. ; m. 1 May 1873. 
Ellen R. Sullivan. Lives at Grand Rapids, Mich. No ch. 

Eugene E. b. 15 Oct. 1851 at Palmyra, N. Y. ; m. 18 Oct. 1S72 
in Monterey, Mich., Emma, dau. of Hiram Bailey. Farmer in 
Monterey, Mich. Five ch., Fred b. 22 Feb. 1873, m - 1 9 Feb. 
1895, Belle McAlpin and has two sons, Dante b. 24 July 1898, d. 
14 Feb. 1899, and Clare b. 17 Sept. 1900; Mary b. 11 June 1874; 
Ettie b. 18 Dec. 1876; Maude b. 26 April 1879, m. 5 Jan. 1898, 
Ed. Hogen and has two children b. in Monterey, viz., Clesson 
Hogen b. 10 Dec. 1901, and Clayton Hogen b. 17 Jan. 1904; Mina 

b. 23 Aug. 1881, m. 23 Dec. 1903 Zall and had dau. Jane 

b. 15 Sept. 1904. 



222 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Richard B. b. 3 Oct. 1854, at Palmyra, N. Y. ; m. 26 Nov. 
1874, Mary A., dau. of Zebina and Hannah (Peer) Crane, b. 17 
May 1855, at Marion, N. Y., and has two ch., Orra b. 5 Feb. 
1876, m. 5 May 1896, Thomas B. Witherden and had ch., Ben- 
jamin Thomas Witherden b. 13 Feb. 1897, ar >d Fannie Blanche 
Witherden b. 8 Sept. 1903; and Israel Z. b. 7 Oct. 1881. 

Henry b. at Marion, N. Y., 2 Aug. 1856; m. 28 Feb. 1876, 
Mina Ellinore Marina Hutchins and lives at Grand Rapids, 
Mich. Two ch., Lewis B. b. 14 July 1877, m - l & Dec. 1900, 
Belle Weston at Grand Rapids ; and Marguerite b. 4 Aug. 1879. 
Both children b. at Marion, N. Y. 

262 

Rufus Brightman Macomber (Rescome 7 , Varnum 8 , 
Humphrey 5 , Philip 4 , John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ), born in West- 
port, Mass., 27 March 1837, married, 24 Oct. 1858, Louise Dean 
Soule, born at New Bedford 8 March 1838, dau. of Eben and 
Lucy. He lives at Myricks, near Taunton, Mass. 

George Rescome b. 31 Aug. 1859 in Westport; m. 28 May 
1881 Eliza Ann, dau. of Silas and Salome (Rounseville) Braley, 
born 24 Oct. 1859. Lives at Myricks. One child, Grace Evelyn 
b. 2J Feb. 1882 m. 14 June 1898, Charles R. Terry, b. 18 April 
1880, and has son Job Harold Terry b. 25 Aug. 1899. 

Charles Andrew b. 22 May 1862; m. 14 Aug. 1890, Elizabeth 
M. Nickerson of Providence, R. I., dau. of Charles H. and Amelia 
J. (Tinkham). Has son, Charles Dennis. 

Flora Louisa b. 5 Dec. 1869; m. 2 Oct. 1888, Edward I., son 
of Ebenezer and Waite (Spooner) Macomber, b. 3 Feb. 1867. 
4 ch. 

Allison Rufus b. 1 July 1875 ; m. Annie Williams of Nova 
Scotia. Has son, Restcome Williams b. 22 Aug. 1899. 

263 
John A. Macomber (Leonard 7 , John 6 , Nathaniel 5 , John 4 , 
John 3 , William 2 , William 1 ) born in Westport, Mass., 25 Jan. 
1849, married, 21 May 1874, Esther A. dau. of Stephen and Ann 
(Davis) Allen of Westport, born 12 Jan. 1849. He was many 
years town clerk of Westport. He died there 18 June 1898. 
Eight children : 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 223 

Hattie Florence b. 26 Feb. 1875. 

Edward Leonard b. 26 Jan. 1877; m - 2 7 J une *9o6, Ada 
Snowden Buzzell and lives on the homestead at Westport, Mass., 
succeeding his father as Town Clerk. Like his ancestors he is a 
Friend, and he is also friendly, having aided much in the prepara- 
tion of this genealogy. 

Alice Allen b. 23 Oct. 1878. 

Benjamin Gifford b. 13 June and d. 29 Oct. 188 1. 

Sophia Emma b. 17 Nov. 1882. 

Stephen b. 21 Dec. 1885; d. 4 Nov. 1886. 

Mabel J. b. 8 Feb. 1887. 

Marianna b. 6 Nov. 1889. 

264 

Charles Hatch Macomber (Noah Hatch 7 , William , Wil- 
liam 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Ells- 
worth, Maine, 22 Nov. 1823, married, 25 Nov. 1847, Charlotte 
Julia Austin. He was a lumberman. He died in Franklin, 
Maine, 30 June 1900. She died 9 Sept. 1902, aged 78-10-9. Five 
children : 

Marion Dutton b. 22 Jan. 1849; m - 6 J an - l8 74> Nehemiah 
H. Higgins and lives in Ellsworth, Me. 

Charles Henry b. 8 June 1852; m. Eliza H. Dyer. Ch., 
Maude b. 7 July 1882, d. 22 Feb. 1892; and Julia M. b. 11 Oct. 

1888. 

Frederick Ives b. 28 Jan. 1854; d. 28 June 1855. 

Francis Ives b. 9 Aug. 1856; m. Helen M. Springer, (2) 31 
Aug. 1895, Carrie S., dau. of Edward and Esther (Irish) Bow- 
den. Dau. Helen F. b. 13 June 1890. He d. 11 May 1899. His 
widow m. 10 June 1907, George W. Madison. 

Jesse Dutton b. 14 Feb. i860; m. Erne M. Crabtree; d. 11 Dec. 
1904 in Franklin, Maine. Ch., Charlotte M. b. 24 Dec. 1885, 
Jesse H. b. 27 Dec. 1889, and Thomas Hatch b. 25 April 1894. 

265 
Henry E. Macomber (Noah Hatch 7 , William 6 , William 5 , 
Thomas*, Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Ellsworth, 
Maine 14 July 1826, married, 10 Feb. 1853, Julia Maria, dau. of 
Capt. John and Julia (Parsons) West. He died in Ellsworth 
10 May 1886. She died 23 Dec. 1893, aged 63-9-4. Six children : 



224 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Helen Maria b. 27 Nov. 1853 ; m. Henry S. Wooster, Frank- 
lin, Me. 

Alice b. 14 Jan. 1856 ; d. in infancy. 

John Henry b. Nov. 1859; m. Elizabeth Jordan. Ch., Bennie 
Jordan b. 24 July 1888, and Ronald West b. 2 Feb. 1892. 

Frederick Hatch b. 28 Oct. 1862 ; m. Cora Devereaux of Blue 
Hill, Me. Lives at Seal Harbor, Me. Ch., Phyllis Corine, Eliz- 
abeth Helen, and Frederick. The last was born 26 Oct. 1901. 

Lena West m. Edward T. Campbell. Ch., Julia b. 28 Feb. 
1890, and Aleine b. 14 March 1903. 

George Howard m. Mary Berdine. Lives in Manchester, 
Mich. 

266 

Israel Hatch Macomber (Charles W. 7 , Dr. Charles 6 , Wil- 
liam 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Marsh- 
field, Mass., 18 July 1837, married, 22 Oct. 1859, Elizabeth B. Syl- 
vester, dan. of Robert and Sarah of Hanover, Mass., born 1839. 
He died 6 June 1899, and was buried with his father in the cem- 
etery near the church at Marshfield Hills. 

Herbert Israel b. 19 Feb. 1866; m. 21 Oct. 1891, Sarah B. 
Christie, dau. of John and Helen of South Boston. He lives on 
the original Macomber farm in Marshfield, Mass., his house 
being just east of the railroad station at Marshfield Hills. Ch., 
Warren b. 2 Dec. 1903, and Paul Chester b. 17 Feb. 1906. 

Walter Stanley b. 8 Aug. 1884; d. 15 Nov. 1906. 

267 

Samuel Alden Macomber (Thomas 7 , Rev. Thomas 6 , Thomas 5 , 
Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 19 April 1829, 
married (1) 17 May 1851, Emily B. Gates, dau. of Frederick F. 
and Louisa Dell (Fairbanks) Gates, (2) 5 Oct. 1856, Mary Ann 
Norris, born 19 Dec. 1827. She died 17 July 1893, at Dracut, 
Mass. He is living (1904) in Monson, Me. 

Anna Dell b. 2 Aug. 1852; m. Mr. Barton and 1. in West Vir- 
ginia. 

Children by second marriage : 

Frederick Alden b. July 1857; died after two weeks. 

Annie Genevieve b. 27 Oct. 1858; m. 17 June 1880, Charles 
H. Cutter of Dracut, Mass., where she is living. Ch., Victor 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Macomber Cutter, b. 2 Sent. [881, who graduated at Dartmouth 

College in 1903; Edna Cutter b. 17 Aug. [885; Esth 1). 

29 April 1 89 1 ; and Lois Cutter b. 24 June 1893. 

268 

Albert Frank Macomber (Thomas 7 , Rev. Thomas 6 , Th 
Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born 18 Dec. [831, mar- 
ried Lydia Flint of Abbot, Maine. He died in Dexter, Me., 6 
Nov. 1900. 

Elwin L. b. in Abbot, Me. m. Persis Chandler. Lives in 
Charleston, Maine, and has children, one b. 1 Mch. 1896. 

Vivian E. b. 20 Sept. 1858, in Abbot, Me. ; m. Flora A. Holi 
of Parkman, Me., b. 12 Aug. i860. Lives in Guilford, Me. lias 
one son, Selclen L. b. in Dexter, Me., 4 June 1884. 

Three Daughters. 

269 

William Henry Macomber (William 7 , Rev. Thomas , 
Thomas 5 , Thomas 4 , Thomas 3 , Thomas 2 , William 1 ), born in Guil- 
ford, Me., 21 Nov. 185 1, married, 1 June 1880, Laura J. Do\ 
Children born in Guilford : 

George b. 7 May 1881 ; m. at Dover, 17 June 1905, Vera Gray. 

William b. 1883. 

Roscoe b. 1885. 

Irving S. b. 1887, d. 5 Sept. 1905, aged 18-7-2. 

Eva b. 1888. 

Preston b. 1890. 

Claude b. 1892. 

Clyde b. 10 May, 1894. 

Helen Gladys b. 26 Jan. 1897. 

Margaret b. 20 May 1898. 

Clifford b. 25 May 1900. 



226 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



APPENDIX 



It is highly probable that the familiy of John Macomber of" 
Middleborough, Mass., (No. 33. p. 17) who married, 21 Oct. 
1779, Eleanor Pierce settled in New York State, and had children 
as follows : 

John b. in Middleborough 14 March, 1789; m. Olive Miller; 
d. at Evans Mills, Jefferson Co., N. Y. 4 Jan. 1863. He was ai 
Judge and prominent man at Evans Mills. His wife was b. in 
Chester, Mass., 16 Dec. 1789, and d. 8 Dec. 1863. Ch., Maria b. in. 
Denmark, near Carthage, N. Y. 22 Feb. 1815, d. in Carthage 1 
Feb. 1886, m. (1) Abel P. Collins, (2) Col, Orlin O. Holcomb. 
A dau. by 1st marriage was Helen Collins, who m. Hiram' 
Houghton of Carthage, N. Y. The other child of John Macomber 
was Emeline, who m. John W. Tamblin and had 3 ch. 

Joseph Pierce b. 1791 ; m. 1822, Alcesta, dau. of Ethni Evans; 
of Evans Mills, N. Y. Ch., Martha d. at 14; Alzada d. at 16;: 
Edwin b. 1830, m. Mary, dau. of Philip Hepp and 1. at Carthage,, 
N. Y. ; John E. b. 1832 m. Delia Blodgett; Almeda M. b. 1835 
( ?) m. 1857, Wm. Henry Draper, who was b. 30 Dec. 1829. 

Dennis b. ; m. . Had dau. Delia m. Ralph Hooker of 

Carthage, N. Y., and Caroline, who d. young. 

Rebecca Macomber (Page 17) married, 21 Sept. 1769, Joseph 
Gooding. He was born 30 June 1730, son of Matthew Gooding 
of Dighton, Mass., who was born 12 June 1695, and married, 
1723, Abigail, dau. of Lt. Joseph Richmond of Middleboro, Mass. 
Matthew was son of George Gooding, born 1633 in the Parish 
of North Petherton, Eng., came to Taunton, Mass., before 1673 
and married, 9 Feb. 1685, Deborah, dau. of James and Elizabeth 
(Phillips) Walker, who was born in 1657 and died 19 Oct. 1719. 
The children of Joseph and Rebecca (Macomber) Gooding were:: 

Deborah b. 22 March 1771 ; m. David Standish. 

Joseph b. 6 March 1773; m. Betsey Austin. 

Elizabeth b. 26 May 1775 ; m. Luther Perry. 

Josiah b. 8 Nov. 1777; m. Ann or Nancy Smith. 

John b. 27 July 1780; m. Deborah Barnes. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 2 2T 

Rebecca b. 28 Sept. 1782; m. John Reed. 

Henry b. 12 June 1785; m. Elizabeth Brown, (2) Rhoda 
Brown. 

Alanson b. 4 March 1789; m. Elizabeth Kempton, (2) Sophia 
Hammond. 

John Macomber born in Taunton in 1779, married Ann I I.itli- 
away of Tiverton, R. I., and settled in Royalston, Mass., about 
1818. He died there 14 Feb. 1867, aged 88 yrs. She died in 
Royalston 18 Feb. 1861, aged 73 yrs. 6 mos. Children: 

Israel Hathaway b. abt. 1809; m. Mahala White, (2) Ade- 
laide Holt. 

Deborah b. ; m. John Thresher of Taunton. 3 ch. 

Sophia b. ; m. 14 Dec. 1835, Jacob H. Thrasher of 

Taunton. 2 ch. 

Mary Ann b. ; m. Sanford Smith of Royalston. 2 ch. 

Samantha b. ; m. Charles Hall of Worcester. 

Nancy, died in Royalston 8 Aug. 1818, aged 6 mos. 

Sarah, died in Royalston 21 Sept. 1819, aged 10 years. 

John, died in infancy. 

Israel Hathaway Macomber was born in Taunton about 
1809. He married (1) in Bridgewater, Mahala, dan. of Asa and 
Rhoda (Shelley) White, born 7 Dec. 1801, and died 8 May 1844. 
She was buried in the "Scotland" graveyard in Bridgewater. He 
married (2) in Taunton, 16 June 1845, Adelaide Holt of Hub- 
bardston, Mass., born about 1819. He lived in Winchendon, 
Hubbardston, etc., and died in Vermont in 1858 or 1859. He 
disappeared and is supposed to have been murdered. His widow 
married Mr. Fales and died in Royalston, Mass., 30 Oct. 1901, 
aged 82 yrs. Children by first marriage : 

Bethania b. 25 Aug. 1832, in Bridgewater; m. 11 Oct. 1849, 
Aaron Hildreth of Winchendon. 4 ch., Anna Rosella, William 
B., George A., and Anna R. 

John Sanford b. 28 Sept. 1834; d. 12 Jan. 1857. 

James Otis b. 22 Oct. 1839 ; d. in 1848. 

Mary Lee b. 24 Aug. 1842; m. 12 Dec. 1861, William A. Whit- 
ney, his second wife, and is living in Royalston. He d. 4 Mch. 
1905, aged 64. They had one child, Rosa Anna Whitney, b. 18 
Mch. 1863. 



2 28 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Children by second marriage : 

Ansel b. 1847. Died in service in the Civil War, aged 16 yrs. 

Harriet A. b. 22 Feb. 1849. Died young? 

Addie b. : m. Mr. Newton of St. Johnsbury, Vt. 3 sons. 

James, went to Oregon, m. and d. s. p. in 

Astoria, Oregon. His widow lives in Ashland, Oregon. 

William Macomber, perhaps connected with the family of 
Xo. 16, Part II. had intentions of marriage with Olive Brown 
recorded in Charlton, Mass., 3 Dec. 1815. He was then of Wood- 
stock, Conn. They were married at Sturbridge, Mass., 26 Dec. 
181 5. He went west and was never heard from. Two children 
born in Charlton, Huldah and Napoleon Bonaparte. 

The latter, born 20 Feb. 18 18, wrote his name McCumber. He 
was a farmer and died at Southbridge, Mass., 24 June 1902. He 
married, at Woodstock, Conn., 3 June 1844, Cynthia, dau. of 
Benjamin and Ruhamah (Litchfield) Shepard, born at West 
Woodstock, 5 Feb. 1820. She died at Southbridge, Mass., 8 May 
1898. Children born at West Woodstock, Conn. 

Herbert Benjamin b. 16 Jan. 1845; m - Sarah Matilda, dau. 
of Joseph and Sarah (Lynn) Bridgford. Two ch., Harold Bret 
b. 2 March 1875, d. 9 Aug. 1875, anc ^ Napoleon Bonaparte. 

Stewart Alphonso b. 2 April 1847; m - 3 July 1870, Annie 
Nancy, dau. of Alfred and Lucy Ann (Draper) Carpenter, b. at 
Sturbridge, 17 Aug. 1850. He d. at Sturbridge 26 July 1872. 
One son, Dr. Stewart Alfred McCumber b. 30 July 1871. He is 
Director of Physical Culture at Union College, Schnectady, N. Y. 

Albert Louis b. 15 March 1849; m - 2 & June 1883. Mary Cath- 
erine, dau. of Alfred M. and Lavinia W. (Lamb) Merrick b. at 
Sturbridge 14 Nov. 1850. Res., Bridgeport, Conn. 

Emmagene b. 3 June 1855; m. 3 April 1874, Jude Taylor 
McNinstry, b. 26 Jan. 1853. Res., Southbridge, Mass. Ch., 
Earle Clifford McKinstry b. 22 June 1889, and Carl Clinton 
McKinstry b. 12 June 1891. 

Ella Ruhamah b. 17 Aug. 1857; m. 20 Sept. 1876, William F. 
Miller, b. 28 July 1846. He d. 5 Oct. 1895. 

Charles Fenno b. 14 Dec. 1859; m. 24 Nov. 1886, Mary J. 
Williams, dau. of Harden and Sarah, b. at Woodstock, Conn. 
'Ch., Bertha Mary b. 28 June 1889, and Charles Elmer b. 21 Dec. 

i8 9 5- 



MAC0MI3ER GENEALOGY 

Zebedee Macomber married in Waltham, Mass., 9 .March 
1794, Martha, dau. of David and Martha (Green) Smith. He 
was a housewright. He died in Waltham in [824. Widow 
Martha died before 8 Nov. 1825. Children recorded in Waltham: 

Sophronia b. 18 July 1794; m. Oct. 1820 Winthrop Ward; d. 
s. p. 17 June 1840. 

Zebedee b. 16 Jan. 1796; d. 31 March 1841, in [nsan lum 

at Charlestown, Mass. 

Francis Green b. 30 Aug. 1797; graduated at Waterville < 
lege in 1825; pastor of First Baptist Church at Beverly, Mas 
where he d. 3 July 1827; m. 1 Jan. 1826, Sophia F., dau. of John 
and Anna Foley of Waltham, b. 15 Sept. 1795. She d. at Low- 
ell 15 May i860. One dau., Frances, d. in Worcester, Mass., 8 
Oct. 1855, aged 27 yrs. 

John Townsend b. 11 May 1799; m. Olivia Sanger. See 
below. 

Doris Stillman b. 24 July 1801 ; d. 2 March 1830. Unm. 

Martha Green b. 21 Feb. 1805; m. Oct. 1832, Isaac Gleason. 

Sally b. 17 Oct. 1807. 

John Townsend Macomber married, 1 April 1821, Olivia, 
dau. of Daniel and Persis (Phipps) Sanger. Lived in Newton 
and Framingham, Mass. Was for many years a hotel-keeper in 
Boston. Died in Framingham 12 Dec. 1870. Wife, born 22 
March 1798, died 14 May 1856. See Hist, of Framingham. 

Charles m. Mary J. Gilchrist of Guildhall, Vt., and died in 
Joliet, 111. 

Martha M. b. abt. 1825 ; m. 4 Nov. 185 1, Harris Russell. 

George m. and lived in Joliet, 111., where he died, 

leaving one daughter. 

John F. b. 7 July 1826; d. in Framingham 4 June 1898. H 
ware merchant in Boston. He m. (1) Lydia H. Ingraham, (2) 9 
Tan. 1862, Mary E., dau. of Abner O. and Calista Ruby | S 
Hunt, b. 14 July 1837. She d. abt. 1863. He m. (3) Helen \. 
Hunt, b. 3 Dec. 1844. Ch. : George F. b. 18 July 1854. Was 
Oakland, Cal., in 1888. Mary Alice b. 21 Sept. [8 
(Charles H.?) b. 26 Dec. 1872. Son (John R.?) b. 1 Nov. 
Daughter b. 20 May 1871. 



.230 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Andrew C. Macomber of Tiverton, R. I., married, 10 June 
1832, Mary Ann Pierce, dau. of Abraham and Mary (Harford) 
Pierce, born 10 July 1810. Both of New Bedford at time of mar- 
riage. He moved to Horseheads, N. Y., about 1836, where she 
died 6 Aug. 1897. He died at Ithaca, N. Y., 7 Dec. 1892. Chil- 
dren :, 

Mary L. b. 8 April 1833; m. 11 May 1853, Andrew Flemming; 
.d. 12 Mch. '97. 

Ann L. b. 19 July 1834; m. 11 June 1854, Henry L. Pierce. 

Ellen F. b. 4 Aug. 1838; d. 21 April 1891. 

Andrew J. b. 19 Dec. 1840; d. 25 Jan. 1894. Unm. 

Benjamin F. b. 19 Sept. 1842; d. 21 Nov. 1862. 

George W. b. 5 Oct. 1845. 

Hattie b. 25 July 1847; m. 4 Oct. 1865, James M. Wellar. 

Zenas Macomber was a soldier of the Revolution from Taun- 
ton, Mass. In 1790 he was living in Berks Co., Pa., with prob- 
.ably two sons and three daughters. A daughter, Mrs. Nancy 
Macomber Hawkins, died 29 March 1907, in the 89th year of her 
age. Descendants live in Harrisburg, Pa. 

Senator Porter J. McCumber was born in Crete, 111., 3 Feb. 
1856, son of Orlin and Anne E., grandson of Benjamin McCum- 
ber, or Macomber, of New York State. He graduated at the 
Law Department of the University of Michigan in 1880 and mar- 
ried, 29 May 18S9, Jennie Shorning. Residence, Wahpeton, 
j\ r orth Dakota. He has been U. S. Senator since 1899. 

Israel Macomber was a soldier in the Louisburg expedition of 
1745. Isaac Macomber was in Capt. David Dunning's Co., from 
21 Oct. to 5 Dec. 1749. Service probably at Brunswick, Me. 

Silence Macomber m. 10 Dec. 1768, Ebenezer Briggs and 
lived at Shutesbury, Mass. A Silence Macomber died at Taunton, 
June 1775. 

Miss Anna Macomber died at Taunton, Mass., 29 Oct. 1842, 
aged 96 yrs. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 23 I 

MACOMBERS FROM NOVA SCOTIA 

Nicholas Macomber married Rebecca Hayes in Maitland, X. 

S., and had four children. He left his family and came to 
Newburyport, Mass., where he lived as William Macomber, per- 
haps having another wife. He died in Newburyport, 26 \ T ov. 
1880, aged 80 yrs., and declared in the record to have been the 
•son of John and Delia, and born at Newport. His children were 
Emma b. abt. 1847 m - : 4 March 1868, Christopher M. T. Stott, 
who afterwards went by the name of Miles Tusman, or Tousman, 
The record declares her daughter of Nicholas and Deborah. 
Capt. John lost at sea in N. Y. Harbor, during a storm about 
1903. Capt. Joseph, who lives in Brooklyn, N. Y. Capt. Fred, 
•drowned in Maitland, N. S. 

Henry J. Macomber died in Haverhill, Mass., 23 June 1899, 
.aged 69-6-25. Blacksmith, born in N. S., son of John and Sarah 
(Fish) Macomber. He was buried at Amesbury. His widow, 
Maria (Thompson) Macomber, died 1 Dec. 1900, aged 54 ) 
11 mos., born in Warrick, Eng., dau. of James and Martha (Da- 
vidson) Thompson. They were married at Amesbury in 1858. 
Had son, Hiram James, born at Salisbury 10 Sept. 1859, who 
lives in Haverhill. 

Died in Boston 14 Feb. 1863, James S. Macomber, son of Wi-1 
Ham of Newport, N. S., aged 24 yrs., born at Maitland, N. S. 

Married at Amesbury, Mass., 19 April 1871, John Macomber, 
age 20, son of Hiram and Margaret, b. in N. S., and Margaret, 
or Alice, Berry, age 17, dau. of Harkless and Sarah of N. S. A 
dau., Sarah Jane, was b. at Newburyport 2 Dec. 1873, and son 
Wallace James b. at Amesbury, Mass., 12 Oct. 1874. 

John Henry Macomber, born at Avondale, Newport, X. S., 
30 Aug. 1808, married 31 Aug. 1845, in Boston, Almira Drew, 
dau. of Lewis and Almira (LeBarron), b. in Plymouth, Mass., 
22 Dec. 1819. She died at Boston 15 Oct. 1870, aged 51-9-24. 
He died at N. E. Harbor, Mt. Desert, Me., 12 Sept. 1898. He 
has a brother, Benjamin Macomber, living at Avondale in 1904. 
He was for many years employed by the government in Boston 
Navy Yard and was later connected with the construction depart- 
ment of the Union Pacific R. R. at Omaha, Neb. Besides a son, 
Henry, who died in infancy, he had a dau. Lucia Virginia, b. 25 



232 MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Nov. 1850, who m. 7 July 1874, in Boston, Edwin Harrison Kim- 
ball, and is living (1905) at N. E. Harbor, Mt. Desert. 

Whidden Macomber, son of Allen and Lydia (Wade) b. in 
Windsor, N. S., abt. 1858, carpenter, m. 1 Jan. 1883, in Beverley, 
Mass., Emma, dau. of Elisha and Emma (Elliott) Pride, ages 25 
and 19. She died in Somerville, Mass., 12 Sept. 1898, aged 36- 
4-16. His address was then unknown. Ch., Clara W. b. 2 Apr. 
1884 and Gertrude C. b. 11 Sept. 1886. Elisha Pride was made 
guardian of these children in 1898. 

Died in Boston, 23 Apr. 1900, Advance Macomber, married, 
age 33, born at Halifax, N. S., dau. of William W. Macomber. 

Peleg and Anna Macomber from Brooklyn, N. S., had a son 
born at Marblehead, Mass., 14 April 1871. Their dau. Mabel 
R. died at Xewton, Mass., 27 March 1884. Their son, William 
T., born abt. 1875, m. 12 Oct. 1898, Mary E., dau. of Samuel 
and Sarah (Robinson) Lyne, born in New Brunswick. 

John Macomber of Nova Scotia married Margaret Carr. 
Two sons lived in Portland, Me., Leonard D., b. abt. 1864, who- 
m. 15 Nov. 1892, Alice Chamberlain, and Loran C, b. abt. 
1870, who in. 31 March 1892, Addie Jane Holden. 



MACOMBER GENEALOCY 

UNCLASSIFIED MARRIAl JES 



Dartmouth, Mass. 

io Sept. 1772, Silvia Macomber and Nathaniel Kirby, both of 
Dartmouth. 

26 Dec. 1787, Mary Macomber and Giles Almy, both of 1). 
9 March 1797, William Macomber and Elizabeth . 

7 April 1811, Sally Macomber and Isaiah Taylor, both of D. 
4 March 1836, Judith Macomber and Harmond Sekell, both 

of D. 

25 May 1836, Thomas R. Macomber and Jemima Pettey, both 
of D. 

6 Sept. 1840, Clarinda Macomber and Willard Sherman, both 
of D. (She was born in Tiverton and d. in Westport, 15 Jan. 
1906, aged 80 yrs. 9 mos., dau. of Eunice Macomber of Dart- 
mouth.) 

Pub. 3 Jan. 1817, Lucinda Macomber and Isaac Phillips, 
both of D. 

Pub. 8 Dec. 1800, Royal Macomber and Olive Grinnell. 

Westport, Mass. 

9 March 1794, Cynthia Macomber and Ichabod Potter, Jr. 

27 Feb. 1803, Mary Macomber and Recompense Gifford. 

26 June 1803, Nancy Macomber and Halliday Potter. 

8 Sept. 1803, Alice Macomber and Humphrey Howland. 

22 May 1817, Widow Hope Macomber and Jonathan Gifford. 
(She received a legacy in the will of Christopher Russell and had 
a son, Christopher Russell Gifford.) 

Pub. 28 Sept. 1827, Ruth H. Macomber and Alexander P. 

Slade. 

Pub. 24 Feb. 1828, Lydia R. Macomber and George Chadwick. 

New Bedford, Mass. 
22 July 1 82 1, Jeremiah Macomber and Sarah P. Taber. 

10 Jan. 1833, Sarah T. Macomber and Jonathan Jenney. 
1 Jan. 1835, Eliza Ann Macomber and Daniel Jenks. 

8 Nov. 1835, Elizabeth T. Macomber and Jeremiah Brightman. 



2-ja MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

17 July 1837, Sally Macomber and William Shaw. (She was 
widow of Horace Macomber and was b. abt. 1804. Ch., by first 
marriage, Adam Macomber b. abt. 1824 and d. at Boston 12 Oct. 
1857, mariner, and Angeline F. b. 1836, m. in Bridgewater, Mass., 
23 July 1852, James L. Legrow.) 

Fall River, Mass. 

20 July 1807, Nancy Macomber and Joshua Sekel. 

21 April 1840, Phebe G. Macomber and Weston Clark. 

Rehoboth, Mass. 

19 July 1795, Polly Macomber and Nathaniel Barney, both of 

Swansea. 

3 Nov. 1839, Phebe S. Macomber and Elihu Thompson. 

MlDDLEBOROUGH, MASS. 

21 Jan. 1802, Polly Macomber and Ebenezer Raymond. 

15 May 1784, Phebe Macomber of Taunton and Elijah Cushe. 
10 Sept. 1833, Henry P. Macomber and Sally Caswell. 

Bridgewater, Mass. 

27 July 1837, Betsey Macomber of Raynham and James 
Warren. 

Freetown, Mass. 

22 May 1808, Nathaniel Macomber of Berkley and Mary Clark 
of Freetown. 

9 July 1815, William Macomber of Freetown and Almy Clark 

of Freetown. 

17 Nov. 1876, Anna C. Macomber and Ephraim C. Pierce, both 

of Freetown. 

Plymouth, Mass. 
4 Nov. 1792, Hannah Macomber of Middleboro and John 
Fuller, Jr., of Kingston. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 2 35 

Tiverton, R. I. 

11 May 1760, Margaret Macomber and William Shrit . 
13 Jan. 1763, Hannah Macomber and John Bennet. 
9 March 1768, Abigail Macomber and Godfrey King. 

23 Sept. 1843, Sylvia A. Macomber and James M. Lawton. 
About 1845, Rhoda Macomber and Peleg Watts. 

Providence, R. I. 

10 March 1845, Cynthia Macomber and William O. West. 

24 March 1852, Elizabeth B. Macomber and Henry C. Allen. 
13 Feb. 1853, Hannah B. Macomber and Rufus B. Smith. 

5 June 1862, Ellen M. Macomber and Nathaniel Crowell, Jr. 
18 June i860, Nora Macomber and Wm. H. H. Calfe. 
20 May 1865, Sarah R. Macomber and Stephen Clemence. 
13 Dec. 1866, Mary L. Macomber and Albert Grinnell. 
17 Dec. 1857, Benjamin Macomber and Penelope Macomber. 
13 July 1849, William, son of James Macomber and Elizabeth 
Lounsbury of N. Y. 

13 Aug. 1818, Hannah Macomber and Mayer Tripp. 



INDEX 



Persons Named Macomber Descended from John of Taunton 



Abiah, 13 
Abiah, 17 31 
Abiel, 13 
Abiel, 17, 30 
Abijah S., 30 
Abner P., 42 
Abraham K., 84 
Achsah, 31 
Achsah, 35 
Adams, 31, 51 
Addison P., 45 
Adelbert P., 82 
Adoniram J., 61 
Albert M., 67 
Alexander G., 69 
Alfred R., 82 
Alfred H., 87 
Alice R, 83 
Alice G., 85 
Alpheus, 34, 55 
Alvah P., 56, 80 
Amity H., 22 
Amos, 45, 67 
Anna, 10, 11 
Annah, 13 
Anne, 7 
Annie A., 80 
Apollos, 31 
Arabella A., 84 
Araunah S., 33 
Archie P.. 80 
Ard, 29, 46 
Arthur, 39 
Arthur W., 42 
Arthur W., 57 
Arthur A., 58 
Arthur H., 86 
Asa A., 24, 35 
Augustus H., 62 
Austin, 43 
Avis, 45 
Axala, 43 

Bathsheba, 24 
Bathsheba, 36 
Barzilla W., 86 
Benjamin H., 73, 87 
Benjamin F., 86 
Benjamin C, 87 



Bertha J., 84 
Bertha F., 86 
Bertha M., 87 
Bertha, 88 
Bessie C., 76 
Bessie P., 79 
Betsey A., 77 
Betsey C., 77 
Beulah A., 48 
Blanche E., 65 
Bradford, 25 

Calvin D., 25, 37, 58 
Calvin E., 22 
Calvin L., 59 
Carl A., 88 
Caroline M., 64 
Carrie M., 62 
Carrie P., 66 
Charles, 22, 33 
Charles, 33, 54 
Charles, 88 
Charles A., 5, 50 
Charles, 55 
Charles A., 75 
Charles A., 87 
Charles B., 67 
Charles E., 71 
Charles F., 71 
Charles H., 56, 80 
Charles, 85 
Charles H., 86 
Charles J., 38 
Charles L., 80 
Charles S., 8 
Charles S., 73 
Charles W., 74 
Charles W., 76 
Charlotte A.. 39 
Chester W., 80 
Clara E., 75 
Clara M., 88 
Clarence, 57 
Clarence L., 58 
Clarinda A., 48 
Clifford M, 82 
Clinton E., 85 
Clinton F., 79 
Converse O., 64, 82 



Cora, 88 
Cyrus, 17 
Cyrus, 31, 48 

Daniel, 24, 37 
Daniel, 40, 60 
Daniel D., 61 
David D., 22 
Dixon S., 76 
Dordana, ^6 
Dorothy R., 62 

Ebenezer, 15, 23 
Ebenezer, 24, 35 
Ebenezer, 26 
Ebenezer, 27, 41 
Edgar L., 83 
Edgar R.. 76 
Edith F, 80 
Edward, 23 - 
Edward, 36 
Edward, 59 
Edward C., 71 
Edward F., 56, 80 
Edward F., 62 
Edward S, 58 
Edwin C, 74 
Edwin O., 71 
Elias, 48, 72 
Elias W., 73. 87 
Elijah, 13, 18 
Elijah, 17, 31 
Elijah, 20, 32 
Elijah A., 7"* - 
Eliza J., 87 
Eliza S., 32, 51 
Elmer A., 50, 75 - 
Elsie W., 84 
Enoch, 17, 31 
Enoch, 47, "o 
Enoch, 72, 86 
Ernestine A., 83 
Esther J., 26 
Ethel, 88 
Ethel H., 69 
Eugene E., 59 
Eugene F., 85 
Eugene L., 39 
Everett L., 53 
Ezra, 28, 43 



Fannie T., 83 
Florence B., 65 
Francis, 47, 70 
Francis H., 46 
Francis H., 68 
Francis L., 47 
Francis S., 61 
Frank C, 66 
Frank C, 79 
Frank E., 73 
Frank J., 66, 84 
Frank M., 47 
Frank O., 81 
Frank P., 38 
Frank P., 60 
Frank W., 39 
Franklin L., 59 
Fred E., 74 
Fred E., 88 
Fred H., 62 
Frederick, 71, 85 

Gaius, 57 
Gardner E., 60 
Gardner H., 38, 60 
George, 15, 22 
George, 28, 44 
George, 45, 68 
George, 47, 69 
George, 64 
George A., 55, 79 
George A., 66 
George A., 69 
George B., 62 
George E., 65, 83 
George E., 73, 88 
George E., 78 
George F., 70 
George H., 6s 
George H., 75 
George H., 77 
George L., 53, 77 
George R., 49, 73 
George S., 45, 67 
George S., 62 
George W., 36 
George W., 44, 65 
George W., 68 
George W., 77 
George W., 79 
Gertrude H., 75 
Gideon C., 46, 64 
Gladys E., 82 
Gleen B., 77 
Grace D., 83 
Grace E., 39 
Grace L., 82 

Harriet L., 87 
Harris B., 43 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 

Harry D., 65 
Harry F., 80 
Harry W., 81 
Harvey W., 83 
Helen, 69 
Henry B., 57, 81 
Henry F., 69 
Henry H., 56 
Henry J., 84 
Henry L., 54 
Henry K., 66, 83 
Henry M., 39 
Henry S., 69 
Herbert D., 80 
Herbert L., 58 
Hirs A., 73, 88 
Hiram, 61 
Hiram J., 51, 76 
Hiram O., 77 
Horace, 87 
Horace A., 87 
Horace H., 22 
Horace L., 62 
Horace N., 73 
Horatio B., 27 
Horatio E., 53 
Horatio N., 32, 52 
Horatio, 50, 73 
Horatio P., 57, 81 
Howard E., 77 

Ichabod, 16, 30 
Ichabod, 29, 45 
Ira L., 76 
Isabel, 6^ 

James, 12, 15 
James, 13, 17 
James, 16, 26 
James, 26, 39 
James, 27, 41 
James, 31, 47 
James H., 70, 85 
James L., 61 
James L., 84 
James O., 72, 86 
James O., 57, 81 
James R., 41, 63 
James S., 71 
Jay K., 84 
Jemima, 43 
J. Frank, 39 
Job, 14, 21 
Rev. Job, 16, 27 
John, 10 
John, 12, 15 
John, 13, 17 
John, 28, 43 
John, 33, 54 



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John, 38, 60 
Lt. John, 21, 33 
John, 54, 78 
John A., 77 
John II., _>.}, 36 
John J., 25. 37 
John K., 66, 84 
John L., 51, jt, 
Jonathan, 16, 22 
Jonathan, 23, 34 
Lt. Joseph, 13, 18 
Joseph, 20, 32 
Joseph, 27, 42 
Joseph H, 77 
Joseph L„ 35, 56 
Joseph L., 85 
Josenh W., 42 
loseph W., 68 
Joshua W., 16, 25 
Joshua M., 45 
Josiah, 13, 16 
Josiah, 43 
Josiah P., 62 
Judson, 55 
Julia A., 32, 50 

Kate L., 84 
Katherine, 40 
Kathryn L., 76 

Laura M., 74 
Leander, 46, 68 
Lemuel, 26, 33 
Lemuel, 33, 54 
Leon E., 88 
Leonard, 30, 46 
Leonard, 33, 53 
Leonard, 77 
Leroy A., 79 
Leroy A., 84 
Lester R., 82 
Lewis, 22 
Lewis E., 75 
Lillias, 67 
Linthe, 17 
Lizzie W., 64 
Lois S., 48 
Lorenzo S., 78 
Lumen, 76 
Luther, 2^, 38 
Luther R., 38 

Marcus C.. s8, 82 
Maria O.. 83 
Marion, 88 
Marion A.. 88 
Mary E., 70 
Mary E.. 88 
Mary Emma, 80 



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MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Matilda, 30 
Maud G., 58 
Melancy, 48 
Melvin, 48 
Melvin A., 39 
Mercy, 12 
Mercy, 22 
Mildred E., 58 
Minetta, 78 

Nathan, 15, 24 
Nathan S., 58 
Nathaniel, 13, 16 
Nathaniel, 16, 22 
Nathaniel, 29, 46 
Nathaniel, 47, 71 
Nathaniel H., 40, 63 
Nathaniel S., 70 
•Nellie M, 82 
Nelson H., 46, 68 
Norman D., 82 
Norman M., 63, 82 

Otis, 64, 83 

Paul 28, 44 
Pearl R, 85 
Philena, 29 
Philip, 23, 35 
Philip A., 35, 55 
Philip R, ;=;. 79 
Priscilla, 27, 29 
Prudence, 30 

Rachel A., 30 
Ralph E., 58 
Ralph E., 81 
Ralph E., 88 
Raymond F., 85 
Rebecca, 30 
Redding, 43 
Rhoda G., 33 
Robert, 40 
Robert P., 23 



Roscoe, 87 
Roxana, 24 
Rufus, 15, 24 
Rufus, 24, 36 
Russell E., 85 
Ruth, 30 
Ruth, 80 
Ruth E., 88 
Rutherford B., 77 

Samuel, 11, 14 
Samuel, 17 
Samuel, 29 
Rev. Samuel, 40, 61 
Samuel C, 39 
Samuel K., 62 
Samuel P., 24 
Samuel W., 35, 58 
Sarah B., 75 
Sarah I., 80 
Sarah M., 74 
Sarah R., 86 
Seth. 27. do 
Seth C., 56, 79 
. , .Silence, 31 
Sinah, 23 
Sinah, 39 
Solon, c? 
Sophia, 43 
Southworth, 27, 40 
Spencer, 31, 47, 71 
Squier J., 45, 66 
Stephen, 12, 14 
Stephen, 15, 23 
Stephen, 32, 49 
Stephen B., 22 
Stephen D., 78, 88 
Stephen R, 49, 73 
Stetson R., 31 
Sumner C., 84 
Susan E., 86 

Thomas, 7 
Thomas, 11, 12, 13 



Thomas, 16, 26 
Thomas W., 26, 39 
Thomasine, 7. 8 

Uriel H., 41. 64 

Venus, 18, 31 

Wallace E, 58 
Walter H., 74 
Walter J., 39 
Walter P., 64 
Walter S., 69 
Walter S., 79 
Warren, 46 
Warren A., 67 
Washington, 32, 52 
Wilbur A., 83 
William 11, 13 
William A., 46, 69 
William B., 48 
William B., 51, 75 
William C., 40, 63 
William C., 47, 72 
William E., 68 
William F., 35, 57 
William H., 37, 59 
William H., 38 
William H., 44^ 65 
William H., 71, 86 
William H., 77 
William H., 86 
William H., 87 
William J., 65 
William J., 86 
William M., 82 
William P., 59 
William W., 42 
William S., 88 
Williams H. H., 84 
Winfield, 83 

Zaccheus, 47, 72 
Zalmura P., 31 
Zebina A., 51, 77 



Persons Named Macomber Descended from William of 

Marshfield 



Abbie L., 217 
Abby H. C., 201 
Abiah, 95 
Abiah, 98 
Abiah, 103 
Abiathar, 97. 106 
Abiathar, 106, 126 
Abiel, 92, 95 



Abiel 101, 112 
A.biel, 103, 119 
Abiel, 104. 121 
Abigail, 93 
Abigail, 101 
Abigail, 104 
Abigail, 112 
Abigail, 136 



Abner, 105, 124 
Abner, 118, 148 
Abner, 144, 183 
Abner 161, 201 
Abner, 162, 202 
Abner B., 201 
Abner H., 216 
Abner T., 203 



MACOM 1SKR ( ; KN KA LOGY 



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Abraham, 121 
Abraham, 140,182 
Abraham C, 218 
Adin, 187 
Addison, 129 
Advance, 232 
Agnes, 211 
Albert, 149 
Albert, 154 
Albert, 165 
Albert, 175 
Albert, 194 
Albert A., 201 
Albert F., 206, 224 
Albert H., 210 
Albert L., 228 
Albert R., 217 
Albert W., 181, 218 
Alfred, 122 
Alfred E., 184 
Alfred E., 202 
Alanson, 100 
Alden, 122, 156 
Alden, 133, 173 
Alden B., 157 
Alexander, 122 
Alexander, 123 
Alexander, 210 
Alexander, 146, 188 
Alexander P. S., 140, 

189 
Alice, 101 
Alice A., 153 
Alice J., 156 
Alice M., 174 
Allen, 144, 185 
Allen G., 191 
Allie, 215 
Almira, 127 
Allison R., 222 
Alonzo, 161 
Alonzo, 138 
Alonzo D., 128 
Alson, 170 
Alton I., 160 
Alvan, no, 131 
Amos, 195 
Amy, 141 
\ngeline, 163 
Angeline, 181 
Amasa, 138 
Angenette, 199 
Andrew C, 230 
Andrew B., 147 
Andrew J., 183 
Andrew H., 196 
Andrew S., 183, 218 
Ann, 112 



Ann, 119 
Ann C, 142 
Anna, 154 
Annie, 112 
Annie A., 200 
Annie T., 168 
Apollos, 97 
Arnold W., 133, 17=5 
Arietta B., 108 
Arostena, 198 
Anson, 120 
Archer, 104, 122 
Archer, 122, 155 
Arthur A., 201 
Arthur C, 214 
Arthur C, 219 
Arthur W., 171 
Asa, in, 134 
Asa A., 165, 212 
Asa B., 208 
Augusta A., 199 
Augustus R., 154 
Augustus T., 172 
Azel, 164, 207 

Barnabas, 120, 162 
Bathsheba, 105 
Benjamin, 101 
Benjamin, 103, 118 
Benjamin, 112 
Benjamin, 113, 138 
Benjamin, 118 
Benjamin, 119 
Benjamin, 149, 190 
Benjamin, 150 
Benjamin, 161, 202 
Benjamin, 181 
Benjamin, 193 
Benjamin, 235 
Benjamin, 137, 180 
Benjamin F., 132, 171 
Benjamin F., 171 
Benjamin F., 172 
Benjamin, 190 
Benjamin T., 142 
Bennie A., 108 
Bethia, 105 
Betsey, 122 
Betsey, 163 
Betsey, 181 
Bessie, 211 
Bessie Lou, 186 
Bradford, 127, 166 
Bradford H., 166 
Brittania, 206 
Bryant, 127 

Caleb, 105, 123 



Caleb, 123, >5'' 
Caleb K . 1 17 
Caleb M , [60 

Caleb \Y .. [46 
Calista, [48 
Calista M.. 
Calvin T., m<). 128 
Calvina A . i_><) 
Candace \V.. 181 
Carl K., [53 
Carlton, 216 
Caroline W., 163 
Carolyn, 170 
Carrie I)., 178 
Case. 135 
Catharine A., 168 
Charilla, 152 
Chandler T., 131 
Charles, 121, 153 
Dr. Charles, 125, 163 
Charles, 144, 184 - 
Charles, 189, 192- 
Charles, 150 
Charles, 159 
Charles, 154 
Charles, 167 
Charles, 181 
Charles, 184 
Charles, 200 
Charles. 229 
Charles A., 164 
Charles A., 165 
Charles A., 166, 214 
Charles A., 167 
Charles, 174 
Charles A., 222 
Charles C, 183 
Charles D., 200 
Charles D., 219 
Charles E., 144 
Charles E., 189 
Charles E., 197 
Charles F., 170 
Charles F, 188 
Charles F.. 202 
Charles F., 214 
Charles F., 228 
Charles H., 146. 189 
Charles H., 153 
Charles H., 191 
Charles H., 204 
Charles H., 223 
Charles Hatch, 204. --'.' 
Charles L., 129 
Charles L., 208 
Charles M., 148, 100 
Charles R.. 209 
Charles S.. 157 



240 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Charles S., 198 
Charles S., 215 
Charles Sumner, 205 
Charles Warren, 163, 

205 
Charles W.. 206 
Charlotte M., 107 
Chester C, 214 
Christopher, 149, 191 
Clara, 181 
Clara A, 188 
Clara B., 148 
Clarence, 161 
Clarence R., 198 
Clarence R., 219 
Columbus. 208 
Comfort, 105 
Comfort, 149 
Constant, 104, 122 . 
Cornelius, 124, 159 
Cyrus, no, 130 

Damaris, 91 
Damaris, 93 
Daniel, 98, III 
Daniel, 101, 106 
Daniel, no 
Daniel. 114 
Daniel, 116, 142 
Daniel, 127, 167 
Daniel, 180 
Daniel, 208 
Daniel H., 131 
Daniel S., 142 
Daniel W.. 129, 169 
Darius, 183, 219 
Darwin, 194 
David, 98, no 
David, 100 
David. 101, 114 
David, 107 
David, no, 129 
David, in, 132 
David, 124 
David, 152 
David, 165 
David, 200 
David H., 129 
David H., 169 
David M., 148, 190 
David W., 131, 170 
David W., 183 
Dean Stanley. 186 
Deborah, 102 
Deborah, 172 
Deliverance, 150 
Deliverance, 164 
Delmar, 200 



DeWitt, 155 
DeWitt B., 220 
Diana, 112 
Donald, 210 
Donald W., 216 
Don Juan, 161 
Doris, 216 
Dorothea, 210 

Ebenezer, 96 
Ebenezer, 101 
Eber, 118 
Edgar, 156 
Edmund, 98 
Edmund, no, 131 
Edmund, 204 
Dr. Edmund E., 
Edith, 91 
Edith M., 215 
Edward, 134 
Edward, 166 
Edward, 187 
Edward A., 192 
Edward G., 108 
Edward G., 220 
Edward H., 142 
Edward L., 142 
Edward L., 223 
Edward P., 201 
Edward R., 214 
Edwin A., 216 
Edwin C, 183 
Edwin L., 225 
Egbert, 154 
Eleanor P., 142 
Elbridge, 128, 169 
El- 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 
El 



hu, 155 

hu C, 122, 156 

hu G., 187 

phalet, 116, 141 

phalet, 209 

sha, 120 

za, 128 

za, 139 

za M., 142 

zabeth, 92 

zabeth, 94 

zabeth, 96 

zabeth, 99 

zabeth, 102 

zabeth, 114 

zabeth, 137 

zabeth, 144 

izabeth, 149 
Ella A., 104 
Ella Louise, 210 
Ellery, 121, 133 
Ellsworth F., 172 



Ellwood F., 217 
Ellwood G., 217 
Elmer E., 218 
Elmira A., 131 
Elmira M., 131 
Elijah, 98, 99, in 
Elijah, 101, 116 
Elijah, in, 132 
Elijah 116, 142 
Elijah, 132, 172 
Elijah G., 151, 193 
Elijah L., 133 
Emery, 155 
Emma A., 168 
Emma J., 142 
Emmagene, 228 
218 Ephraim, 92, 96 

Ephraim, 103, 118 
Ephraim, 117, 146 
Ephraim, 119, 149 
Ephraim, i?t 
Ephraim, 181 
Esther, 91 
Esther, 103 
Eugene H., 154 
Eugene E., 221 
Eugene W., 214 
Eunice, 122 
Eva, 181 
Eva A., 216 
Eva M., 170 
Eva M., 214 
Evaline F., 163 
Evelyn, 204 
Everett W., 203 
Ezra, 140 
Ezra, 141 
Ezra P., 174 

Fanny, 107 
Finis M., 217 
Frances, 107 
Frances L., 216 
Francis, 136 
Francis A., 204 
Francis A., 185, 220 
Francis B., 142 
Francis B., 1130, 170 
Francis E., 210 
Francis G., 229 
Francis I., 223 
Francis S., 220 
Frank, 171 
Frank, 181 
Frank E., 169 
Frank G., 188 
Frank Gair, 209 
Frank L., 167 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



241 



Frank T., 169 
Franklin, 199 
Fred, 195 
Fred C, 188 
Fred F., 167 
Fred L., 204 
Fred J., 148 
Frederic W., 193 
Frederick, 115, 181 
Frederick H., 211 
Frederick H., 224 
Frederick S., 158 
Fremont, 155 

Gardner, 117, 146 

Gardner, 120, 151 

Gardner, 147 

George, 101, 114 

George, 112, 135 

George, 143 

George, 144 

George, 157 

George, 163 

George, 188 

George, 229 

George A., 157 

George A., 210 

George B., 116 

George B., 192 

George B., 196 

George Bush, 178 
George C, 201 
George E., 121 
George, 153. 196 
George, 177 
George F., 142 

George H., 124 
George H., 153 
George H., 214 
George H., 224 
George L., 173, 215 
George L., 201 
George L., 215 
George N., 218 
George R., 222 
George S., 158 
George T., 140 
George S., 186 
George T., 156 
George R., 166, 213 
George W., 108 
George W., 139 
George, 184, 220 
George W. 200 
George W., 204 
George W., 220 
George Wood, 198 
Gertrude C., 187 



Gertrude E., 216 
Gideon, 100,112 
Gideon, 109, 128 
Gideon. 112 
Gideon, 202 
Gilbert, 116, 143 
Gilbert, 117, 144 
Gilbert, 144, 182 
Gilbert G., 183, 219 
Grace B., 120 
Grace P., 181 
Grenville, 210 

Hannah, 91 
Hannah, 93 
Hannah, 97 
Hannah, 101 
Hannah, 105 
Hannah, 121 
Hannah, 180 
Harvey, no, 1131 
Harvey, 200 
Harvey W., 181 
Harmon, 152 
Harmon, 181 
Harrison G., 130 
Harrison H.. 211 
Harry E., 169 
Harry G., 187 
Harry L., 214 
Harriet, 186 
Helen, 181 
Helen B., 188 
Henry, 93, 97. 106 
Henry, 127 
Henry, 137 
Henry, 144, 183 
Henry, 170 
Henry, 181 
Henry, 222 
Henry B., 108 
Henry B., 142 
Henry C., 172 
Henry E., 204, 223 
Henry J., 147 
Henry J., 163 
Henry J., 231 
Henry M.. 165 
Henry P., 173 
Henry P., 234 
Henry R., 150 
Henry W., 1^4 
Henry Ward, 205 
Herbertine, 182 
Herbert B., 228 
Herbert C, 129 
Herbert I.. 224 
Herbert I., 90 



Herman, 155 
Hilliard M., 177 
Hiram, 135 
Hiram, 137 
Hiram J., 231 
Homer, 173 
Horace, 134 
Horace, 203 
Horace. 234 
Horace L., 154 
Horace W., 169 
Horatio G., 127, 167 
Howard M., 216 
Howland, 154 
Humphrey, 104, 123 
Humphrey, 112 

Ichabod, 100 

Ichabod. 126, 164 

Ichabod, 164, 208 

Ichabod, 164. 209 

Ichabod, 213 

Ida,i8i 

Irving, 215 

Isaac, 15, 140 

Isaac, 126, 165 

Isaac. 141 

Isaac, 149, 193 

Isaac, 150 
Isaac, 152, 195 
Isaac, 165, 213 

Isaac, 187 
Isaac, 193 
Isaac B., 216 
Isaac E., 128, 168 
Isaac J., 213 
Isaac N., 178 
Isaac W., 183 
Isaiah, 97, 107 
Isaiah, 99 
Isaiah, 108 
Israel, 145, 186 
Israel, 152 
Israel, 195, 220 
Israel H, 206, 224 
Israel H, 227 
Israel Hatch, 90 

Jacob, 93, 98 
Jacob, 98, 1 10 
Jacob, no, 130 
Jacob, lis, 140 
James, 101, 114 
James, 107 
James, 124, 161 
James, 153. 197 
James, 235 



242 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



James, 210 
James, 161 
James A., 190 
James A., 203 
James A., 219 
James B., 165, 211 
James C, 216 
James E., 183 
James H., 130, 169 
James H„ 131 
James H., 200 
James Hervey, 162, 

205 
James Hervey, 170 
James -Hervey, 205 
James Nelson, 148, 

190 
James P., 197 
James Lewis, 186 
James R., 164, 209 
James P., 201 
James S.,143, 182 
James S., 160, 200 
James S., 197 
James T., 198 
James V.,123,.158, 197 
James W., 126 
Jane S., 130 
Jarvis, 122 
Jay, 148 

Jeremiah, 95, 103 
Jeremiah, 100, in 
Jeremiah, 113, 139 
Jeremiah, 149 
Jeremiah, 233 
Jedediah, 122 
Jedediah, 155, 197 
Jesse, 119 
Jesse, 149 
Jesse, 223 
Jessie W., 193 
Jennie, 150 
Jennie A., 198 
Joanna, 96 
Joanna, 101 
Job, 96 
Job, 118, 149 
Job, 120 
Job, 149 
Job, 191 
Job A., 191 
Job B., 138 
Joel, 99 
Joel, 178 
John, 89, 90 
John, 90, 91 
John, 92, 95 
John 93, 97 



John 96, 104 

John, 101, 113 

John, 104, 119 

John, in 

John, 113, 137 

John, 114 

John, 116, 143 

John, 117 

John, 117, 147 

John, 119, 149 

John, 120 

John, 122, 156 

John, 123, 159 

John, 125 

John, 132, 172 

John, 137 

John, 145, 187 

John, 150 

John, 161 

John, 161, 200 

John, 179 

John, 186 

John, 200 

John, 227 

John, 232 

John A., 128, 167 

John A., 141 

John A., 157 

John A., 169 

John A., 199, 222 

John B., 139, 140 

John B., 154 

John C, 172 

John C, 194, 221 

John Calvin, 162, 204 

John D., 158, 199 

John F., 229 

John G., 131 

John G., 182 

John H., 138 

John H., 144 

John H., 209 

John H., 223 

John H., 231 

John K., 126 

Tohn L., 161,185 

John P., 189 

John R., 135 

John R., 136, 168 

John S., 135 

John T., 166 

John W., 107 

John W., 160 

Jonathan, 97, 106 

Jonathan, 101, 112 

Jonathan, 115, 139 

Tonathan, 117 

Jonathan, 137, 179 



Joseph, 94, 100 
Joseph, 101 
Joseph, 112, 136 
Joseph, 113 
Joseph, 118 
Rev. Joseph, 126, 164 
Joseph, 13s 
Joseph, 137, 180 
Joseph, 152 
Joseph, 161, 201 
Joseph B., 132, 171 
Joseph E., 180, 216 
Joseph E., 217 
Joseph P., 226 
Joseph R., 164, 207 
Joseph T., 181 
Josephine, 191 
Joshua, 101, 114 
Joshua, 105, 124 
Joshua, in, 133 
Joshua, 135, 178 
Joshua, 136 
Joshua L., 124, 175 
Josie, 181 
Josiah W., 99 
Judah, 101 
Judith, 136 
Judea, 104 
Julia, 127 
Julia A.. 131 
Julia A., 151 
Julia A., 156 
Justus, 165 
Justus, 208 

Katherine, 210 
Keziah, 100 

Laura, 114 
Laura, 117 
Lawrence, 210 
Leander S., 103 
Lemuel, 97, 108 
Lemuel, 108, 129 
Leonard 159, 199 
Leonard A., 188 
Leonard, 211 
Leonard D., 232 
Leonard K., 142, 143 
Lenna I., 140 
Leon S., 196 
Levi, in, 134 
Levi, 113, 136 
Levi, 134 
Lewis, 152 
Lewis A., 154 
Lewis A., 186 
Lewis B., 222 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



2 43 



Lewis C.» 156 
Lewis H., 186 
Lewis M., 162 
Lewis T., 191 
Lilley, 116 
Lina E., 201 
Linnie J., 168 
Lindley M., 180 
Loran C, 232 
Lorane, 138 
Loren D., 186 
Lorenzo, 179 
Lorenzo D., 161, 202 
Lorenzo T., 202 
Lottie M., 156 
Louise S., 217 
Louise T., 191 
Lucian B., 181 
Lucetta, 106 
Lucinda, 133 
Lucy, 91 
Lucy C, 168 
Luther, 98, 108 
Luther, 109, 128 
Lydia, 101 
Lydia, 102, 103 
Lyman A., 175 
Lysander, 213 

Mabel A., 216 
Mabel E., 154 
Madden, 106 
Mahlon D., 180 
Malinda, 106 
Manfred A., 208 
Macy C, 216, 219 
Marie W., 197 
Marguerite, 217 
Marguerite, 222 
Margaret, 94 
Margaret, 103 
Margaret, 104 
Margaret, 180 
Maria K., 133 
Mark A., 186 
Maurice E., 216 
Marian W., 217 
Martha, 181 
Matthew, 90 
Matthew, 91 
Matthew, 94, 100 
Matthew, 97 
Maud B., 188 
Maud J., 108 
Marvin, 194 
Mary, 92-5 
Mary, 100 
Mary, 101 



Mary, 103 
Mary, 114 
Mary, 124 
Mary A., 216 
Mary B., 136 
Mary E., 186 
Mary J., 155 
Mary J., 212 
Mary H., 168 
Mary L., 193 
Matilda, 180 
Mehitable, 134 
Melvina, 208, 213 
Merit, 150 
Mercy, 95 
Mercy, 136 
Mercy, 164 
Merle, 170 
Melzar, in, 132 
Michael, 101 
Michael, 102, 103 
Michael, 118 
Miner S., 200 
Mortimer, 139 
Moses, 100 
Moses, 140 
Myra, 215 
Myron, 155 
Myron J., 181 

Nason R., 187 
Nancy T., 172 
Napoleon B., 228 
Nathan, 100 
Nathan, 106 
Nathaniel, 105, 123 
Nathaniel, 135 
Nathaniel, 234 
Nathaniel G., 160 
Nehemiah, 97, 106 
Nelson, 138 
Nelson, 148 
Nelson, 194 
Nicholas, 231 
Noah, 121 
Noah H., 162, 204 
Noe, 104, 121 
Norman, 155 
Norman I., 198 

Onesimus, 96, 105 
Onesimus, 106 
Olive E., 129 
Oliver R., 208 
Oren, 139 
Oren, 152 
Orrin, 134, 176 
Orlando, 106 



Orlando, 216 
Orville, 129 
Oscar, 155 
Otis, 122, 157 
Otis, 145, 187 
Otis, 188 
Otis, 195 

Pamelia, 180 
Pardon, 105 
Pardon, 112, 126 
Pardon, 152, 196 
Pardon, 153 
Pardon, 197 
Paul, 159 
Paul C, 136 
Paul C, 224 
Patience, 104 
Patience, 105 
Peace, 101 
Peace, 104 
Peace, 105 
Peace, 114 
Peleg, 187 
Penelope, 235 
Perrv, 119, J 5i 
Perry G., 153, 174 
Perry R., 155, 174 
Peter, 105, 124 
Peter, 136 
Phebe, 102 
Phebe, 114 
Phebe, 138, 139 
Phebe, 210 
Phebe E., 218 
Phebe H., 152, 196 
Philander, 177 
Philena, 107 
Philip, 95. 104 
Philip, 104, 120 
Philip, 147 
Philip, 152 
Philip, 202 
Philo, 194 
Pliny, 194 
Polly L, 216 
Porter J., 230 
Prudence, 164 

Rebecca, 139 
Rest, 104 
Rescom, 122, 154 
Rescome, 158, 198 
Reuben, 97 
Reuben, 149 
Reuben, 184 
Richard, 116 
Richard, 119 



244 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Richard, 123 
Richard, 136, 178 
Richard, 152, 194 
Richard, 180 
Richard A., 174 
Richard B., 217 
Richard B., 222 
Richard E., 133, 174 
Richard R., 180, 217 
Richard S., 217 
Richard W., 217 
Richmond, 153 
Roba, 137, 138 
Robert, 173, 215 
Robert F., 176 
Robert L., 210 
Rodman J., 154 
Roger, 117, 144 
Roland, 214 
Rosella, 155 
Roxana, 182 
Roy E., 215 
Royal, 233* 
Rufus, 99 
Rufus, 198, 222 
Russell, 209 
Russell EL, 174 
Ruth, 91 
Ruth, 102 
Ruth, 113 
Ruth, 122 

Sally, 97 
Sally, 98 
Sally M., 99 
Samuel, 94, 101 
Samuel, 101, 115 
Samuel, 106, 126 
Samuel, in, 133 
Samuel, uq 
Samuel, 116 
Samuel, 133, 174 
Samuel, 166 
Samuel A., 174 
Samuel A., 206, 224 
Samuel M., 181 
Samuel M., 192 
Sanford L., 126 
Sarah, 91 
Sarah, 112 
Sarah, 118 
Sarah, 152 
Sarah A., 182 
Saunders, 162, 203 
Seabury, 149, 191 
Selden, 225 
Seth, 97, 108 
Seth, 138 



Seth H., 176 
Sherwood, 119 
Silas, 137, 179 
Silas, 179, 216 
Silas T., 221 
Silence, 230 
Simeon, 98, 109 
Simeon, 117, 145 
Simeon A., 134, 176 
Simeon E., 188 
Smith, 122 
Smith, 155 

Solomon H., 130, 176 
Sophronia, 132, 171 
Stephen, 93, 97 
Stephen, 100 
Stephen, 128 
Stephen, 138 
Stephen, 139 
Stephen, 191 
Stephen, 202 
Stephen H., 195 
Stewart, 228 
Susan, 97 
Susanna, 103 
Susanna, 105 
Susanna, 136 
Sylvanus, 156 
Sylvanus B., 206 
Sylvia, 116 

Theophilus, 148 
Theron A., 132 
Thirza, 187 
Thurston, 117, 145 
Thurston, 14s, 188 
Thurston R', 188 
Tilson, 166, 213 
Thomas, 90 
Thomas, 91, 92 
Thomas, 92, 94 
Thomas, 92, 96 
Thomas, 96, 105 
Thomas, 103 
Thomas, 105, 125 
Thomas, 106, 125 
Thomas, 119, 150 
Thomas, 125, 163 
Rev. Thomas, 126, 163 
Thomas, 155 
Thomas, 164, 206 
Thomas C, 181 
Thomas H., 193 
Thomas R., 233 
Thomas S., 120 
Thomas W., 197 
Timothy, 94, 102 
Timothy, 102, 117 
Tryphena, 99 



Ursilla, 90 
Ursilla, 91 
Ursilla, 92 
Ursilla, 93 
Ursula, 96 

Van Don, 161 
Varnum, 123, 158 
Vellator B, 189 
Vernon C, 169 
Virtue, 113 
Vivian E., 225 

Waite, 102, 103 
Wallace, 155 
Wallace W., 213 
Walter H., 154 
Walter F., 193 
Walter L., 211 
Walter P., 189 
Walter S., 224 
Wanton, 121, 152 
Warren, 157 
Warren, 224 
Warren S., 133, 173 
Warren V., 215 
Wesson, 101, 115 - 
Wesson, 113, 137 
Wesson, 115, 140 
Wesson, 137, 181 
Wesson, 138, 181 
Wesson, 139 
Wesson, 141 
Wesson, 179, 215 
Wesson, 181 
Whidden, 232 
Wilbur, 124, 162 
Willets, 180 
Willard A., 204 
William, 89, 90 
William, 90, 91, 92 
William, 91, 93 
William, 92, 93, 94 
William, 94, IOI \ 
William, 96, 105 
William, 102, 117 
William, 105, 125 
William, 114 
William, 117, 145 
William, 124, 160 
William, 125, 162 
William, 134 
William, 138 
William, 144, 184 
William, 149 
William, 155, 156 
William, 161 
William, 162, 203 



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245 



William, 


164, 207 


William 


F., 


188 


William, 


165, 210 


William 


H., 


108 


William, 


180 


William 


H., 


130 


William, 


.181 


William 


H., 


147 


William, 


185 


William 


H. 


H., 186 


William, 


220 


William 


H., 


, 197 


William, 


228 


William 


H., 


202 


William, 


234 


William 


H. 


. 207, 225 


William, 


235 


William 


I., 


182 


William 


A., 194 


William 


M. 


, 130 


William, 


199 


William 


P., 


180, 217 


William 


B., 157 


William 


P., 


187 


William 


B., 158 


William 


P., 


217 


William 


C, 107 


William 


R., 


130 


William 


E., 134, 177 


William 


R., 


154 


William 


E., 174 


William 


R. 


166 


William 


E., 189 


William 


s., 


192 


William 


E., 220 


William 


s., 


203 


William 


F, 177 


William 


s., 


204 


William 


F., 134 


William S., 


214 



Dr. William S., 218 
William T., 172 
William W., 182 
Willis B., 217 
Winchester, 126, 165 
Winchester S., 166 
Winfield S., 204 
Winnifred, 181 

Zebedee, 104, 119 
Zebedee, 122, 154 
Zebedee, 123, 157 
Zebedee, 229 
Zebedee A., 151 
Zebedee D., 141 
Zenas, 230 
Zilpah, 106 
Zilpha, 102 



Surnames Other than Macomber 



Abernethy, 200 
Ackerman, 152 
Adams, 7, 32, 39, 135, 

152, 2ii, 214, 218. 
Ainsworth, 214 
Akin, 168, 199 
Albert, 150 

Alden, 49, 126, 164, 
206, 213 

Aldrich, 196 

Alexander, 41, 45, 53, 
64, 66, 219 

Allard, 66 

Allen, 15, 30, 46, 50, 73. 
86, 96, 100, 102, 104, 
105, no, 112, 119, 
124, 139, 148, 150, 

153, ^70, 188, 195, 
197, 199, 208, 220, 
222, 235 

Almy, 151, 182 192, 

232 
Ames. 124, 168 
Andreas 26, 39 
Andrews, 15, 22, 133, 

136, 138, 148, 191 
Anderson 150, 216 
Ardrie, 167 
Arnold, 127, 161, 167 
Ashley, in, 135, *73, 

174 
Anthony 104, 113, 137, 
155, 180, 198. 



Atwater, 103, 113 132 

142 150, 155, 156 
Atwood, 58 
Austen, 58 
Austin, 100, in, 126, 

159, 160, 165, 199 200, 
204, 223, 226 

Averill, 138 
Ayers, 146, 196 

Babcock, 10,141, 213 
Bacon, 23, 34, 169, 185 
Baggs, 195 
Balcom, 56 
Ballard, 46, 69 
Baker, 116, 123, 159, 

171 
Ball, 152, 196 
Barden, 109, 135 
Barker, 96, 105, 139, 

193 
Barr, 38 
Barney, 234 
Barnes, 226, 124, 144, 

160, 187 
Barnett, 1 < - 182 
Barrows, 40, 60, 109, 

136 
Bailey, 22, 124, 161 

166, 213, 221 
Barlow 58 
Barter, 99 
Bartlett, 59, 167 



Bartholomew, 1 jg, 182 

Baumann, 65 

Baxter, 212 

Bates, 16, no, 131 

Beardsley, 139, 181, 218 

Bean, 203, 162 

Beale, 195 

Beals, 68 

Beckner, 78 

Beach, 130, 131, 169, 170. 

Bassett, 93, 198 

Bell, 154, 179 

Bemis, 177 

Benedict, 154 

Benjamin, 44 

Bennett, 148, 192, 235, 

Benton, 35, 58 

Berrv, 203, 231 

Benner. 161 

Berdine, 224 

Besse. 115 

Bickford, 129 

Bigelow, 60, 71, 138 

Billington, 162, 205 

Bird, 135 

Billings, 145, 213 

Bisbee, 131, 132, 171 

Bishop, 27, 103 

Blackington, 21 

Blake, 52, 62 

Bliss, 121, 129, 149 

153 
Blodgett, 226 



246 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Bloomer, 40 

Booth, 5*» 81, 107, 108, 

in, 197 
Boardman, 80 
Bobbet, 90, 91 
Bonney, 132 
Bodwell, 83 
Borden, 36, 47, 7h I4*i 

168, 173. 180, 197, 

198, 202, 216 
Bourn, 217 
Bowers, 30 
Bowden, 62, 223 
Bowen, 64 
Bowker, 40, 60, 125, 

133. 163 
Bowman, 75, 156, 176 
Bowerman 180 
Boyden, 34 
Boynton, 138, 187 
Brasrdon, 19 
Brainard, 209 
Braley, 222 
Brand, 181 
Bray, 156, 206 
Braman, 43 
Brewer, 19, 138, 165, 

209 
Brewster, 196 
Brainard, 209 
Brockelhurst, 201 
Bradford, 157, 218 
Bridgford, 228 
Briggs, 18, 23, 28, 31, 
32, 36, 43, 45, 47, 48, 
49, 50, 51, 71, 72, 81, 
91, 93, 99, 102, 108, 
109, 113, 115, 127, 
136, 137, 139, 140, 
146, 157, 178, 183, 
196, 230 
Brigham, 38, 116, 147 
Brightman, 104, 105, 
116, 117, 121, 123, 
139, 142, 144, 145, 
146, 168, 198. 
Bristol, 221. 
Brookings 51 
Brooks, 56, 80, 85 
Brown, 41, 51, 57, 60, 
96, 100, 101, 114, 161, 
165, 178, 196, 198, 
201, 119, 126, 227, 
228 
Brownell, 22, 71, 94, 
102, 114, 117, 118, 
120, 124, 1 68, 174, 
196, 202, 217 



Bryant, 59, 139, 172, 

214 
Bubier, 53 
Bugbee, 148 
Buck, 130, 212 
Bullard, 191 
Bunker, 199 
Burgess, 37, 59, 45 
Burnham, 99, 167 
Bump, 203 
Burleson, 212 
Burlingham, 135, 178 
Burnell, 131, 215 
Burns, 187 
Burpee, 211 
Burt, 24, 30, 31, 36, 

144, 184 
Burr, 33, 54 
Burrill, 110 
Burton, 57 
Bush, 74, 178 
Butler, 168 
Butts, 119, 139, 179, 

185, 220 
Buzzell, 223 

Cahoon, 73 

Cairns, 87 

Caldwell, 88 

Calderwood, 107 

Callahan, 52 

Campbell, 59, 164, 165, 

167, 209, 212, 224 
Cameron, 177 
Capin, 128 
Capron, 33 
Canedy, 13 
Carone, 161 
Carver, 25, 37 
Carr, 115, 163, 232 
Carter, 61 
Case, 31, 96, 104, 112, 

135, 153 
Castle, 25, 100, 170 
Caswell, 15, 203, 234 
Cate, 107 
Calfe, 236 
Carpenter, 43, 72, 129, 

228 
Cary, 55 
Cane, 91 
Center, 137, 179 
Chaffee, 15, 36 
Chace, 97, 105, 129, 151, 

178, 179 
Chase, 24, 142, 154, 161, 
169, 170, 173, 174, 182, 
192, 201, 202, 217 



Chandler, 81, 225 
Chaney, 147 
Chamberlain, 61, 137, 

138 
Channing, 117 
Cheney, 205 
Chadwick, 219, 233 
Chapman, 209 
Chester, 62 
Chipman, 59 
Choate, 61 
Church, 201 
Childs, 92, 95 
Chinery, 164 
Christie, 224 
Clark, 26, 32, 40, 49, 
116. 127, 129, 160, 169, 
195, 234 
Clary, 41, 202 
Classon, 95 
Cleveland, 198, 235 
Clifford, 134 
Clymonte, 71 
Cobb, 18, 22, 146, 170 
Colcord, 42 
Coffin, 112, 136 
Cole 36, 48, no, 144, 
165, 172, 209 

Colburn, 63 
Collerd, 66, 83 

Collins, 139, 149, 191, 
226 

Conery, 179 

Congdon, 134 

Conehaven, 57, 81 

Cook, 70, 91, 95, 141, 
168, 183, 200 

Cooley 66 

Coombs, 40, 61, 205 

Cooper, 95, 103, 175 

Cornell, 101, 104, 115, 
119, 121, 122, 147, 
151, 152, 163, 156, 
174, 187, 194 

Cornish, 186, 197 

Corey, 94, 16, 157, 197 

Covell, 146, 198 

Cowen, 134, 136, 147, 

175 
Costino, 121, 193 
Cox, 49, 59 
Crabtree, 223 
Craig, 148 
Crandall, 171 
Crane, 14, 21, 25, 30, 

98, 222 
Crapo, 139 
Crise, 155 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



247 



Crampton, 184, 220 
Crawford, 25, 37, 38 
Crocker, 91, 92 
Crockett, 206, 213 
Crosby, 62 
Crowell, 235 
Crossman, 23 
Culver, 26 
Cummings, 12, 85 
Curtis, 32, 41. 50, <a, 

105, 106, 125, 163, 

183, 203 
Cushing, " e 68 
Cushe, 234 

Cushman, 48, 146, 216 
Cutler, idd. 184 
Cutter, 224 

Dakin, 180 

Darling, 95* 103, 208 

Davenport, 100, 117, 128 

Davis, 9, 32, 52, 97, 104, 
113, 122, 123, 135, 
140, 144, 148, 158, 
159, 172, 177, 178, 183, 
191, 196, 198, 204, 220, 
222 

Davol, 36, 94, 96, 100, 

' 101, 104, 112, 113, 
158, 219 

Dean, 13, 15, 16, 17, 24, 
30, 37, 48, 56- 70, 7i, 
72, 80, 87, 127, 181, 
217 

Delano, 159. 178, 179, 
180 

Demond, 29 

Deming, 130 

Denham, 175 

De Moransville, 141 

Debec, 179 

Dennis, 134, 168, 176 

Deuel, 101, 113, 120, 

141 151 

DeWolf, 120 
Dicker, 37 
Dickinson, 68, 202 
Devereaux, 224 
Dill, 171 
Doane, 38, 60 
Donaldson, 179, 216 
Dolman, 178 
Donnell, 61 
Dorr, 49 

Donovan, 26, 179 
Dow, 79 

Downing, 124, 148, 161, 
200 



Doughty, 164 

Doyle, 58, 207, 225 

Dorsey, 64 

Drake, 13, 17, 23, 106 

204 208, 219 
Draper, 226 
Drayton, 106 
Dresser, 41 
Drew, 133, 231 
Driggs, 126 
Dryer, 97, 106 
Dunbar, 165, 207 
Dunham, 49, 56, 135, 

99, 176, 197 
Dunn, 39, S3 
Dunnells, 221 
Durand, 139 
Durfee, 195 
Durkee, 155, 198 
Dutton, 162, 204 
Dyer, 158, 171, 183, 188, 

219, 223 
Dyre, 92, 96 

Earl, 59, 104, 122, 123, 

136, 157 
Easterbrooks, ill, 133, 

210 
Eaton, 56, 82, 108, 109, 

128, 168 
Eddy, 29, 39, 46, 97 
Edes, 164, 207 
Edmands, 67 
Edson, 68 
Eldridge, 27, 159 
Elliott, 26, 39, 72, 86, 

152, 196, 232 
Ellis, 119, 188 
Elms, 109, no 
Elwell, 42 
Emerson, 210 
Emery, 193 
Estes, 119, 148 
Evans, 10, 161, 226 
Everett, 137 
Everson. 163 
Ewing, 168 

Fairbanks, 206, 224 
Fairweather 
Fales, 25, 59 
Farley, 61 
Farmer, 161 
Farnum, 67 
Farrington, 68 
Farrar, 39 
Fayer, 107 
Faunce, 177 



Feare, 50 
Felt, 178 
Felton, 29 
Feather, 178 
Fernald, 60 
Ferris, 138, 218 
Field, 34 
Firbush, 49, 209 
Fish, 46, 103, 118 
Fisher, 21, 37, 42, 124, 

159, 219, 220 
Fitzpatrick, 24 
Flagg, 33, 54, 170 
Flanders, 215 
Fleming, 219, 230 
Flint, 50, 179, 206, 

215, 225 
Fobes, in, 134 
Foley, 229 
Folsom, 181 
Forshay, 38, 60 
Ford, 125 
Foster, 150, 173 
Francis, 32, 49, 121, 

134, 153, 200 
Fraits, 176 
Frazier, 72, 87, 177 
Freelove, 71 
Freeman, 39, 54, 88 
French, 42, 70, 71, 85, 

127, 167, 187, 197 
Frost, 172, 203, 209 
Frye, 99 

Fuller, 43, 169, 204, 234 
Funk, 77 
Furguson, 155 

Gage 113, 138, 158 
Gardner, 46, 68, 168 

182, 217 
Galiver, 120 
Gant 170 
Garroughty, 156 
Gates, 148, 206, 224 
Gay, 208 

Gaunnons, 73, 87 
Gibbs, 47, 69, 107 
George, 70 
Gibbs, 47, 69, 107 
Gerrish, 53 
Gidley, 70, 101, 106 
Gilmore, 39 
Gillett, 148 
Gillis, 157 
Gilchrist, 229 
Gilfeather, 154 
Gifford, 71, 101, 102, 

116, 118, 119, 121, 



248 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



122, 124, 139, 140, 141. 

145, 146, 147, I5I| J 53, 

"i55, 157, 160, 176, 182, 

193, 233 

Gladding, 122, 157, 202 

Gleason, 229 

Glenny, 161 

Glidden, 65 

Godfrey, 15, 16, 22, 29, 

32, 33, 35, 44, 56, 57 
Goff, 36, 127, 135 
Godwin, 38 
Golden, 50 
Gooding, 17, 226 
Goodnough, 208, 209 
Goodwin, 17, 58 
Goodrich, 73 
Gorden, 63 
Gould, 54, 193 
Gracie, 173 
Gray, 29, 49. 73, 158, 

178, 188, 193, 219, 225 
Graves, 33, 34, 79, 54, 

137, 181 
Green, 24, 30, 36, 46, 

58, 96, 108, 122, 156, 

194, 208, 229 
Greenwood, 38, 211 
Grinnell, 94, 101. 102, 

114, 115, 149. 191, 

233, 235 
Griswold, 216 
Griffin, 42 
Grow, 130 
Grover, 164 
Groves, 158 
Guild, 200 
Guinnith, 98 
Gullifer, 120 
Gurney, ill 

Hale. 203 

Hall, 16, 30, 40, 48, 73, 

85, 87, 95, 122, 127 
Hallock, 184 
Hailstone, II 
Hammond, 72, in, 113- 

172, 187, 227 
Hamilton, 46, 69 
Hamblin, 30, 170 
Hambley, 118, 197, 203 
Hallett, 55 

Hammett, 159, 160, 196 
Hannaford. 173 
Hanson, 73, 82, 88, 208 
Harkness, 28, 44 
Harding, 56 



Harrison, 70 

Harris, 63, 86, 209 

Harrington, 70, 211 

Harriman, 108 

Harriden, 200 

Haines, 127 

Hart. 16, 25, 101, 104, 

115, 119, 120, 158, 

168, 186, 128, 219 
Harvey, 46, 50, 75, 97, 

107 
Haskins, 3T 45, 54- 58, 

66, 97, 109, 135 
Haskell, 16, 37, 7h 86 
Hathaway, I5> 24, 47, 

57, 68, 70. 72, 81, 

127, 134, 160, 168, 

180, 227 
Hathorne, 209 
Hatch, 27, 50, 73, 75, 

102, 125, 162, 182. 205 
Hayes, 152, 231 
Haynes, 210 
Havens, 126, 106 
Hastings, 55 
Hazlett, 127, 166 
Hawkins, 230 
Hazzard, 145, 158, 187, 

199 
Halstead, 167 
Hayden, 164, 208 
Head, 128, 199 
Healey, 117, 132, 146, 

171, 178 
Heath, 186 
Henderson, 32, 52 
Hendrick, 38 
Hemmenway, 78 
Heathcote, 201 
Hervey, 33 
Herring, 164 
Heselton, 25 
Hess, 51, 75 
Hersey, 69 
Hepo. 226 
Hewlett, 57, 81 
Hicks, 96, 104, 105. 122, 

217 
Higgins, 223 
Hildreth, 227 
Hill, 69, 84, 150, 192 
Hiller, 175 
Hilliard, 218 
Hiscox, 136 
Hitchcock, 125, 163 
Hitt. 139 
Hitch, 168 
Hoar, 14, 17, 91 



Hoeg, 120, 137, 152,. 

181 
Hobart, 34, 45, no, 130,. 

169 
Hodges, 28, 43 
Hogen. 221 
Hogqboom, 195 
Holcdmb, 226 
Holland, 141 
Holley, 141 

Holloway, 11, 13, 72 
Holt, 227 
Holton, 55 
Homans, 53 
Holmes, 60, no, 166, 

225 
Honeywell, 154 
Hood. 23. 35, 55, 185 
Horton, 167 
Hooper, 97, 108 
Hooker, 138, 226 
Hoskins, 30, 91, 93 

Houghton, 226 

Howard, 44, 97, 126, 
130, 154, 164. 165, 
181, 209 

Howland, 24, 37, 56, 8o„ 
85, 120, 122, 136, 146, 
151, 152, 154, 156. 174. 
187, 193, 105, 197, 233- 

Hoxie, ii" 145 

Hoyt, 108 

Hovey, 169 

Hubbard, 45 

Huddy, 93 

Hulse, 156 

Humphrey, 166. 167,. 
197, 203, 204 

Hunt, 119, 188, 229 

Hurd, 64 

Hursell, 174 

Hurlburt, 130 

Hutchings, 34, 222 

Hutton, 198 

Hutchinson, 186, 213 

Ingalls, 33 
Ingalsbe. 184 
Inglis, 217 
Ingraham, 184, 229 
Isman, 137, 139 

Jackson, 30, 51, 70,. 

126, 130, 164, 173 
Jenks, 233 
Jenney, 233 
Jennings, 142 
Jensen. 167 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



249 



Jessup, 212 

Jewett, 162 

Jewell, 29, 44 

Jiilson, 142 

John, 161 

Johnson, 55, 56, 61, 65, 

83, 99, in, 122, 154 

161, 173 
Joice, 154 

Jones, 15. 26, 161, 220 
Jordan, 197, 224 
Joy, 62 
Josselyn, 163 

Kaighn, 160 

Ka flock 44, 65 

Kane, 31 

Keane, 81, 118 

Kearney, 67 

Keese, 137, 179 

Keith, 49, 98, in, 12S, 

169, 197 
Kellogg, 175 
Kelly, 81, 168 
Kelsey. 64, 218 
Kelso, 42 • 

Kempton, 31, 48, 227 
Kenerson, 87 
Kenefick, 58, 82 
Kennedy, 144, 183 
Kerr, 218 
Keyes, 86 
Kidder, 42, 158 
Kiffe, 150 
Kilbv, 116. 141 
Kilduf 

Kimball, 166, 207, 232 
King, 18, 46, 56, 57, 103, 

108, 118, 145. 146, 

149, 198. 215, 235 
Kingman, 218 
Kirby, 101, 116, 133, 

J74. 193. 233 
Kittridge, 107 
Knapp, 138 
Kneeland, 83 
Knight, 68 * 
Knowles, 178, 180 
Knowlton, 205 
Knox. 126, 155 

Ladd, 176, 216 
Lake, 118, 188 
Lamb, 54, 55, 228 
Lamkin, 207 
Lane, 204, 129 
Landon, 179 
Langdon, 162 



Landers, 135 
Landross, 128, 204 
Lambert, 150 
Landis 161 
Lancaster, 62 
Lapham, 154 
Laudeman, 76 
Law, 1 19, 162 
Lawrence, 221, 40, 63, 

107 
Lawton, 115, 142, 155, 

176. 192, 235 
Laselle. 51 
Langworthy, 50, 74 
Lathrop, 104, 197 
Leach, 29, 44, 68 
Leachman, 140 
Lee. 39, 45, 138 
LeBarron, 11 1, 133, 231 
Leeds, 165. 210 
Legrow, 234 
Leek, 127 
Lemmon, 29 
Lewis, 31, 41, 64, 82, 
Leonard, 13, 43, 56, 86, 

97, 106. 128, 132, 214 
Leland, 212 
Lloyd, 218 
Leighton, 50 
Litchfield, 228 
Little, 106, 117, 146, 

153. 162, 172, 177 
Littlefield, 49, 50, 73, 

74 98. no, 174 
Littlehale, 42 
Lincoln, 30, 47, 78, 88, 

126, 161, 163 
Locke, 66, 84 
Longe. 129 
Look, 208 
Lounsbury, 235 
Lonsdale. 202 
Lord. 200 
Longfellow, 160 
Love, 161 
Lovell, 73, 87, 158 
Loveridge, 23 
Lowell, 67 
Luce, 41 
Ludlow, 129 
Lyman, 130 
Lyne, 232 
Lyon, 178 

McAdams, 57, 82 
McAlpin, 221 
McCain. 157 
McClean, 59, 205 



McArthur, 32, 47 
McFadden, 204 
McFetridge, 160 
McGuire, 67 
McNeil, 93, 98 
McKonnochie 
McKernan, 146 
McGooch, 45, 67 
McFarland, 52 
McCaffery, 71 
McLanathan, 165. 212 
McKinstrv, 228 
McPortland, 60 
Macy, 198 
Makepeace, 55, 79 
Madum, 93, 97 
Magee, 172 
Mallows, 173 
Madison, 39 
Maker, 37 
Manley, 11 1 
Mansfield, 150 
Marks, 55 
Marra, 214 
Martin. 189 
Martindale, 16, 26 
Marson, 27, 41, 42 
March, 185 
Marshall, 139, 62 
Matthews, 148, 168, 188 
Mattuson, 192 
Mason, 62, 106, 141, 

145, 150, 191 
May, 42 

Maynard, 99, 138, 216 
Mayo, 62, 140 
Maxfield, 115, 197 
Maxim, 203 
Maze, 205 
Manchester, 37, 92, 94, 

100-5, 112, 118, 123, 

124, 135, 140, 145, 
LSo, 153, 161, 162, 179, 
187, 193. 199. 201 

Manwell, 166, 213 

Mather, 184 

Maxwell, 189, 210 

Meeker, 137, 138, 180 

Megone, 166 

Meigs, 157, 122 

Mellon, 80 

Merchant, 127 

Merriam, 165, 212 

Merrill. 180, 228 

Merrick, 121, 146, 147 

Meredeth, 47 

Messenger, 119 

Messick, 51, 76 



25° 

Metzger, 141 

Mills, 83 

Miller, 19, 20, 32, 41. 

58. 61, 117, 121, 146. 

149, 182, 205, 226, 228 
Minnis, 195 
Mitchell, 65, 70, 137 
Mixer, 129 
Montgomery, 67 
Morgan, 76, 129, 164, 

207 
Moore, 62, 63. 165, 210 
Morey, 65 
Morris, 103, 194 
Morrison, 209, 214 
Morse, 59, iS7, 213 
Morrill, 61 
Morehouse, 139 
Moulton, 134 
Mosher, 101, 102, 105. 

113. 115. 137, 141, 

145, 155 
Mott, 194 
Mower, 170 
Mullen, 54 
Munroe, 201 
Murry, 79 
Muzzy, 41 
Myers, 39 
Myett, 220 

Nail. 39 

Nason, 46 

Nellis, 178 

Nelson, 82 

Nesmith, 165, 211 

New, 120 

Newman, 208 

Nickerson, 222 

Niles, 98 

Norcross, 183 

Norcut, 47, 48, 70, 71, 

72 
Norris, 206, 224 
North, 79 
Norton, 41 
Noyes, 74, 131 
Nutter, 73, 88 

Oclair, 141 
Oliver, 28 
Olvitt, 195 
Ordway, 206 
Oshorn, 152 
Osgood, 210 
Owen, 97 
Owens. 76 
Otis, 144, 183 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



Packard, 15, 23, 25, 
37, 49, 73- 86, 98, 
214 I? 

Padelford, 12, 36, 55 

Page, 23, 45 

Palmer. 48, "3, "7, 
118, 145. 148 

Pardee, 95, 103 

Parent, 67 

Parish, 47, 72, 132 

Parker, 38, 166, 185, 214 

Parkil, 138 

Parks, 166 

Parlin, 203 

Parmenter,. 60 

Parsons, 31, 223 

Parry, 71 

Pattee, 137 

Patten, 61 

Patterson, 83 

Paul, 13, 16, 28, 30, 41, 

48 

Payne, 201 

Pearl. 181 

Pearson. 64, 127 

Pease, 34, 133, 147- 173 

Peck, 33, 54, 143, 182 

Peckham, 124, 217 

Peer, 222 

Pendexter, 53 

Perkins, 41. 63, 64, 69. 
79, 83, III, 132, 177, 
208 

Perrin, 69 

Perry, 43, 102, 103, 130. 
146, 163. 226 

Peterson, 14, 72 

Pettengill 98, no 

Pettey, 31, H3, "5. 
140, 141, 147, 218, 
232 

Peverly. 155, 194 

Phelps, 55 

Philbrick, 108, 127 

Phillips, 99, 1 10, 125, 
140, 208, 223 

Phinney, 13, 17, 27 

Pickett, 59 

Pierce, II, 14, 17- 18, 
19, 24, 29, 31, 35, 36, 
56, 108, 115, 122, 126, 
135, 142, 168. 177, 
187, 195, 230, 234 

Pitts, 16, 27, 49, 98 

Pitman, 145 

Pittsley, 86 

Plaisted, 67 



Plumb, 87 

Plumsley, 66 

Pomeroy, 34 55 

Poole, 46, 85 

Poor, 10. 

Potter, 36, 96, 95, 104. 
105, 113, 117, 121, 123, 
124, 142, 143,152, 153, 
194, 197, 199. 218, 233 

Pratt 16, 27, 31, 32, 40, 
52, 97. 109 

Preble, 19 

Presbrey, 36, 87 

Price, 51, 77, 127 

Pride, 232 

Pringle. 192 

Pulsifer, 194, 221 

Purington, 166 

Putnam, 196 

Putt. 195 

Quint, 166 

Ramsey, 73 

Randall, 91, 92, 93 

Rankin, 62 

Raymond, 31, 85, 91, 98, 
133, 180, 234 

Read, Reed, 15. 17, 24, 
34- 37- 75, 86, 109, 
141, 146, 183, 185, 

208, 209, 227 
Reagan, 68 
Record, 24 

Re id. 69 
Remington, 142 
Reynolds, 66, 136, 147, 
158, 164, 166, 207, 213 
Rhoades, 60, 171 
Rice, 169 
Richards, 61, 62 
Richardson, 28, 29, 179, 

209, 214 
Richmond, 56, 112, 109, 

. I5r 
Ricker, 215 

Ricketson, 137 

Ridlon, 73 

Riley, 142 

Ripley, 44, 65 

Roach, 184 

Robb, 192 

Roberson, 108 

Robeson, 209 

Robbins, 133 

Robinson, 12, 14, 20, 24, 

27, 32, 41, 62, 93, 08. 



MACOMBER GENEALOGY 



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131, 134. 170, 176, 179, 

205 
Rogers, 55, 86, 93, 94, 

102, 177 
Rollins, 214 
Roe, 144, 184 
Rovvell, 69 
Rounsville, 13, 19, ill, 

134, 174, 222 
Root, 81, 186 
Ross, 71 
Rounds, 102 
Ruby, 166, 229 
Rndd, 178 
Ruland, 182 
Russell, 100, 118, 129, 

143, 146, 193, 229, 233 
Ryder, 175 

Sabin, 184 

Sackett. 172 
Safford, 206 
Samson, 20, 30 
Sanderson, 20, 1 10 
Sandy, 178 

Sanford, 18, 21, 119, 
145, 149, 160, 174, 179, 

187, 194, 218 
Sanger. 229 
Satterlee, 183 
Sawyer, 143, 194 
Saxton, 183 
Saunders, 202 
Scales, 188 
Scott, 55, 65, 79, 83 
Searles, 21, 111, 181 
Sears, 43, 229 
Seaver, 88 
Seavey. 198 
Sedgeley, 27, 40 
Sekell, 233, 234 
Selden, 185, 220 
Sexton. 152, 194 
Seymore, 161 
ShacHord, 74 
Shedd, 56, 203 
Sherburn, 127 
Shaw, 41, 123, 162. 172, 

234 
Sharpesteen, 186 
Shepherd, 59, 75, 123, 

228 
Shepardson, 21, 33 
Sherrod, 103, 119 
Sherwood, 103, 119 
Shorning. 230 
Sheltz, 194 
Short. 97 



Shove, 136, 193 

Shores, 133 

Sherman, 32, 48, 105, 
112, 122, 140, 159, 
161, 169, 177, 202, 203, 
233 

Shurtleff. 72, 109, 128 

Shethar, 212 

Shrieve, 152, 235 

Sibert, 77 

Sibley, 192 

Simmons, 12, 15, 33, 
109, 119, 128, 141, 149, 
150, 193 201, 207 

Simpson, 78 

Sisson, 48, 151, 192 

Skinner, 107 

Slack, 135, 178 

Slade, 123, 140, 157 
159, 233 

Slocum, 116, 137, 142, 
156, 198 

Smith, 22, 27, 33, 54, 
62, 68, 78, 85, 97, 
103, 107, 108. in, 
123, 132, 143, 149, 

i.Si, 153, 163. 177, 

178, 184, 186, 191, 

195, 208. 215, 226, 

227, 229, 235 
Smiley, 217 
Snell, 113, 121, 149, 218, 

219 
Snow, 134, 177 
Snyder, 195 
Somerby. 204 
Somers, 119 
Soule, 58, 94, 144, 198, 

222 
Soper, 15, 22 
Soule, 105, 128 
Southard, 138 
Southworth, 13, no 
Sparrow, 48 
Spooner, 35, 58. 140, 

150, 174, 222 
Springsteen, 26 
Springer. 102, 103, 104, 

201. 223 
Sprague, no, 125 
Spencer, 151 
Splain, 200 
Squ-er, 54 
Stackpole, 32. 34, 51 
Standish, 226 
Staniford, 134 
Starker, 161 



Staples, 10, 16, 22, 31, 
35, 47- 57, 70, 80, 85 

Stearns, 83, 152, 166 

Stetson, 105, 125 

Stewart, 45, 67, 114 

Stevens. 16, 25, 26, 38, 
62, 67, 88, 103, 177 

Stillwell, 196, 106, 126 

Stinson, 27 

Stone, 34, 170, 216 

Story, 137 

Stover, 210 

Stoddard, 154, 158 

Straw, 162 

Strange. 24 

Stratton, 65 

Strauss, 69 

Street, 56 

Strickland, 184 

Strangeman, 214 

Strong, 138 

Studley, 174 

Sturtevant, 162, 202 

Sullivan, 221 

Sumner, 29, 45 

Sutherland, 181 

Swan, 116, 152 

Swift, 86. 153 

Sylvester, 206, 224 

Sylvia, 189 

Taft, 178 

Taggart, 1 1 1 

Tallman, 48, 193 

Talvey, 87 

Tapley, 64 

Tappan, 47 

Tarne, 91 

Taylor, 38, 42, 189, 208, 

233 
Taber, 92, 94, 95, 101, 
103, in, 119, 120, 122, 

123. 135. 156, 192, 195, 

197, 220, 221, 233 
Taplin, 19 
Teague, 53 
Terry, 66, 85, 39, 141, 

222 
Thatcher, 23, 34 
Thayer, 44, in, 132, 

200 
Thew, 180 
Thompson, 35, 209, 230, 

234 

Throop. 138 

Thrasher, 17, 25, 31. 93. 

97, 227 
Thomas, 20, 26, 32, 48, 

50, 109, 132, 172, 206 






252 

Thurston, 53, 63. "* 82, 

117 

Tibbetts, 208 

Tilton. 215 

Tileston, 210 

Tiffany, no 

Tilden, 96, 105, 106, 125, 

162, 205 
Tinker, 173, 215 
T ink ham, 02. 9» 9<5, 

100, 173- 215, 222 
Tisdale, 106 
Tolman, 209 
Tomlin, 100 
Townsend, 17. 3*, 1 ^> 

213 

Tobev, 165 
Tracy, 39 
Trafford 102 
Treat, 155 
Treadwell, I54> *55 
Triggs, 79 n 
Tripp 43. 48- 51, 75, 7°. 
94, 100, 101, 102, 104, 
115, 117. 122, 134, i39> 
140. 141, 143, ISO, 152, 
153, 155, 158, 176, 177, 
178, 179. 183, 187. 199, 
206. 218, 210, 235 
Trow, no, 131 
Trowbridge, 103 
Tiuelove, 179. 200 
Tucker, 34, 18&, 187 
Tuckerman 174 
Tufts, 33 

Turner, 93- 98, 139 
Tyrrill, 135 

Unsworth, 202 

Varse, 101, 112 
Vaunce, 176. 193 
Very, 107 
Vining, 74 
Vosler, 39 

Wade, 36, 132 171 
Wady, 133. 174 
Waite, 94. 102, 192, 214 
Wales, 169 



MACOMSER GENEALOGY 

Walker, 43. M3 

W alley, 84 

Ware, 129 

Ward, 26, 170, 175, 229 

Wardell, 136, 14/ 

Ward well. 41, 64, 82 

Warren, 54, 234 

Wagner, 218 

Washburn, 132, 173 

Waterman, 38, 117, M4 

Watt, 42 

Watts, 210 235 

Wattles, 67 

Watson, 50, 72. 13, 165, 

212 
Wardner, 181 
Webber, 208 
Webster, 132, 159 
Weaver, 191 
Weed, 144 
Weeden, 11 5- 140 
Weagle. 88 
Weekes, 137, 180, 210 
Wedgewood, 82 
Welch, 44. 65, 171 
Wellar, 22P 
Weller, 184 
Wentworth. 50, 200 
West. 42- 64, 75, 100, 
157, 165. 172, 204, 212, 
223, 235 
Westgate, 70, 176 
Weston. 17, 29, 33, 42, 
46, 61. 133- 143, 173, 
222 
Wheeler, 40, 63, 85, 139, 

184 
Whitcomb. 211 
White, 22, 24, 35, 49, 91, 
^" 07. 105 106, 108, 
1 id, 12b, 12c. 126, 128, 
131, 150, 168, 214, 227 
Whiting, 173 
Whitley, 188 
Whitman, 98 
Whitmarsh, 15 
Whitmore. 24, 201, 50 
Whitney, 158, 227 
Whiton, no, 129 



Whipple, 115 
Whittier, 205 
Wilbur, 34, 43, 93, 97, 
101, 105, 113 114, 123, 
134, 138, 146, 151, *77, ■ 
198, 201 
Wilcox, 116, 121, 133, 
$41. 143, 150, 152, 
r, 175, 201 
Wilde, 157, 188 
Williams, 12, 13, 14, 15- 
18, 27, 28, 40, 45, 55, 
63, 87, no, 130, 169, 
210. 222, 228 
Willis, 12, 164, 185 
Williston, 119 
Willworth, 54 
Wilson, 42, 67, 74, io 9> 

184 
Winans, 126 
Winchester, 221 
Wingate, 32. 52 
Winslow, 18, 19, 34, 56, 

66, 79, 96, 175 
Winter, 168 
Witham, 214 
Wither den, 222 
Wood, 54, 99, ii3. "7, 
122, 123, 144, 145, 156, 
182, 183, 186, 194, 
219, 221 
Woodbury, 80, 215 
Woodhouse. 149 
Woodis, 38, 60 
Woodle, 113, 136 
Woodruff, 125 
Woodward, 12, 14, 21, 

57, 60, 129 
Woodworth, 65. 01, 97, 

105 n 
Wool, 181 

Wooster, 224 

Worth, 180 

Wright, 123, 138, 171, 

213 
Young, 40, 76, 165, 205 
Yule, 154 

Zimmer, 76 














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